Police arrest fake Corps member at NYSC orientation camp in Nasarawa

Police arrest fake Corps member at NYSC orientation camp in Nasarawa

Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old fake Corps member at the Magaji Dan Yumusa Orientation Camp in Keffi.

Spokesperson of the command, DSP Ramhan Nansel, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday, February 29, 2024, said the suspect, Miss Ogeh Bethel Chibuife, was arrested after a complaint was lodged at the Keffi Divisional Headquarters by a staff of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.

According to the PPRO, the complaint was lodged after a head count was conducted on all Corps Members in the ongoing 3-week orientation exercise.

“She confessed that she was supposed to have graduated in 2022 but had a lot of spill over courses, and in a bid to cover up the lies she had made to her parents, she went to the market and purchased NYSC uniforms/other items meant for Corps members and sneaked into the Camp in order to take pictures and send to her parents before nemesis caught up with her

“The State Commissioner of Police, CP Umar Shehu Nadada hereby calls on all those nursing ambition to toe the path of these fake corps member to have a rethink as the long arm of the law will catch up with them.”

Nansel added that the suspect has been arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Court in Keffi for the offence of criminal trespass, impersonation and forgery