The denial of Dr. Peter Mbah’s certificate by the National Youth Service Corps, or NYSC, on Monday was questioned by the civil rights advocacy group Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, who asserted that such assertions were suspicious.
You may recall that the NYSC certificate that Mbah provided to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC before to the 2023 general elections has been the subject of public debate as a result of the NYSC’s repeated denials of the certificate.
Speaking to reporters in Abuja, HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, asked that the Federal Government, in particular the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, set up a panel and look into the NYSC decision.
He said, “We wonder why Mbah would go through all the rigorous process to serve his fatherland only to end up forging a certificate.
“NYSC discharge certificates are printed by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company PLC. They have security features such as watermarks and serial numbers denoting the batches. We, therefore, challenge the NYSC to produce any other certificate in the series of Mbah’s certificate that has the same serial number as his.
“The suspicious role of the management of NYSC in the instigated saga about the so-called unknown NYSC certificate presented by the Governor-elect of Enugu State is therefore suspicious.
“The maximum political de-marketing of the Governor-elect is satanic and condemnable. The whole thing should be subjected to forensic fingerprinting analysis.
“We condemn the media trial against Peter Mbah and demand a Presidential probe panel made up of independent persons including justices of the Supreme Court who must have retired 12 years ago as members to probe the NYSC certificate issuance that is now marred in self-inflicted quagmire.”