Student Accuses UNN Of Using Her Matric Number To Mobilise Someone Else For NYSC, Demands 100m As Damages

Ogunbamowo Damilola, a graduate of the College of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has alleged the establishment used her matriculation quantity to mobilise one other pupil for the Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.

Damilola, who studied Arithmetic Schooling from the establishment’s affiliate, Yaba Faculty of Expertise (YABATECH) Satellite tv for pc Campus, had graduated in December, 2018.

The girl mentioned to her utmost shock, she was not mobilised for service in 2019 alongside her colleagues although she didn’t fail any course.

In accordance with her, when she demanded to be despatched for NYSC, the college authority knowledgeable her that her Matric No; F/BS/14/3880001 was utilized by another person for NYSC.

In a petition, dated October 20, 2021 and issued on her behalf by way of Yakubu Eleto chambers, Damilola known as on the college to right away deploy her for NYSC.

Within the petition, the graduate additionally demanded N100 million as damages, citing the negligent switch of her Matric No to a 3rd occasion to make use of for NYSC.

The petition, signed by Yusuf Malik Bello, her lawyer, was addressed to the establishment’s registrar.

It learn: “Regrettably, this growth has left our consumer in a state of frustration, stagnation and dilemma, as she can not acquire employment in Nigeria with out her NYSC discharge or exemption certificates (of which you’re conscious), after spending large sums of cash and losing the very important years of her youthful life pursuing a profession of her selection.

“TAKE NOTICE due to this fact that we’ve got our consumer’s authority to demand and we hereby demand that you simply ship our consumer to NYSC with out additional delay as a result of she was supplied admission on a full time foundation deserving of NYSC and on the illustration that her Matric No; F/BS/14/3880001 can’t be shared with anybody which is the usual everywhere in the world, we at the moment are emphatically demanding the sum of N100,000,000.00 (Hundred Million Naira) as damages suffered by our consumer by negligently transferring her Matric No: to a 3rd occasion to make use of for NYSC.

“That is an act intentionally orchestrated to frustrate our consumer’s 4 years of devoted examine in YABATECH, the trauma of wasted years and fraud perpetuated on her.

“TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that ought to you fail and/or neglect to heed our demand inside Seven (7) days of the receipt of this letter, we will haven’t any different possibility than to excellent our shoppers additional instruction. Be correctly guided.”

Reacting, Dean of College of Technical Schooling, YABATECH, Olusola Akeredolu, mentioned the matter was past the faculty.

He, nevertheless, mentioned efforts are ongoing to handle the problem.

He mentioned: “The difficulty is that any person used her Matriculation quantity which isn’t in our jurisdiction. That particular person used it and NYSC was in a position to choose that particular person which is exterior our personal jurisdiction, we’ve got been making an attempt to comply with it as much as see if we will get the particular person.

Requested whether or not the coed who used the matric quantity had bribed a member of employees, the dean added: “Go to NYSC, we’re an affiliate physique of the College of Nigeria, Nsukka. Once we compile outcomes, Nsukka comes right here to choose outcomes and takes it over there and so they’re those who would relate with NYSC. As soon as the consequence has been authorized by the senate of UNN, they ship it to the NYSC.

“Now we have nothing to do with their mobilisation. However I do know we’ve got been working to make it possible for we discover a means by which she should go for NYSC as quickly as doable.”