IN the past three weeks, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has been in the eye of the storm over the allegation that she submitted a forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate to the National Assembly during her confirmation as minister. According to an exclusive story published by a leading online newspaper, Premium Times, Adeosun did not participate in the mandatory one-year national youth service scheme, a programme mandated by law for all Nigerians who graduate from universities or equivalent institutions before age 30, instead opting to forge an exemption certificate purportedly issued in September 2009. The paper further alleged that some members of the National Assembly, apprised of the alleged forgery, had used the information to advantage by causing the minister to grant them series of illegal largesse.
Going by her curriculum vitae, the…
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