62 Fake Corps Members arrested in Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) yesterday paraded 62 suspected fake corps members arrested at the Government Secondary School in Tammah, an outskirt of Nasarawa town.

Also arrested with the fake corps members by the NSCDC were five drivers and a photographer while their coordinator, one Mr. Chinedu, escaped. Parading the suspected fake corps members at the Nasarawa command headquarters of the NSCDC in Lafia, the state capital, the commandant, Mr. Andekin Amos Musa, said that of the 62 suspects, 44 are females while 18 are males.

Musa said: “The arrest was done during a routine surveillance carried out by our officers. They came across a group of suspected corps members undergoing training in an outskirt of Nasarawa town, about 14 kilometres away.

“The fake corps members went there with chartered coastal buses to take photographs and commence training. They equally admitted committing the offence as they confessed paying money ranging from N50, 000 to N100, 000 to be enrolled into the scheme.

“This is the third time the command making such arrest as previous suspects were charged to court.

These new suspects will equally be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.” Musa said all the suspects claimed to be graduates of the University of Jos, who had completed their part time degree programmes in various disciplines of the institutions.

In an interview, one of the female suspects, Keziah Danjuma, said she was invited by a friend to participate in the illegal training after paying N50, 000 at Mararaba, an outskirt of Abuja.

A nursing mother from Oyo State, Maimuna Ganyat, who was also arrested, lamented that she had never known the exercise was illegal, saying: “If I had known it earlier, I wouldn’t have involved myself in it.”