The management of the National Youth Service Corps has said contrary to report circulating on social media about a corps member sent to jail in Ibadan, Oyo State, for criminal offense, the said Ukanwa Ikechuwuku is now an ex-corps member who passed out of National Service in February 2023.
It would be recalled that Ikechukwu, was on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for allegedly swindling a police officer of N235, 000.
The police charged the defendant with false pretense and theft.
But the NYSC in a statement on Friday night by Eddy Megwa, Director, Press and Public Relations clarified that when Ikechuwuku was serving, he collected a sum of Two Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand naira to purchase a physiotherapy machine for a woman at the police clinic where he was serving but failed to get the machine.
The statement read in full:”The attention of NYSC Management in Oyo State has been drawn to the information circulating on social media about a Corps Member sent to jail in Ibadan, Oyo State, for criminal offense.
“Management wishes to make the following clarifications;
“The said Ukanwa Ikechuwuku is now an ex-Corps Member who passed out of National Service in February 2023.
“Secondly, when he was serving, he collected a sum of Two Hundred and Thirty Five Thousand naira to purchase a physiotherapy machine for a woman at the police clinic where he was serving but failed to get the machine.
“Every attempt made by the woman to get a refund of her money from this ex-Corps Member proved abortive, therefore she decided to charge him to court for criminal offence”.
The statement admonished corps members to always be of good behavior and adhere strictly to the core values of the NYSC Scheme in all their transactions.
It also emphasised that the NYSC uniform is not an immunity against any form of criminality because the laws of the federation applies to all and sundry.
