NYSC certificate: APP drags Adeosun, Buhari, others to court

The Action Peoples Party, APP, has filed a suit before the Federal
High Court, Abuja, demanding the sack of the Minister of Finance, Kemi
Adeosun.

Listed as defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/714/2018 were
President Muhammadu Buhari; the Attorney General of the Federation,
AGF and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences
Commission.

The APP did not only pray for the removal of the minister, but also
for an order directing her to refund the salaries she had received
since 2015 when she was appointed as a minister and another order
compelling the Federal Government to prosecute her.

The party, through its lawyer, Kingdom Okere, asked the court to,
among others, declare that Adeosun "is not qualified to be appointed a
minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or into any other public
office, having not participated in the compulsory one-year National
Youth Service scheme, in view of the combined provisions of sections
11, 12,13 and 17 of the National Youth Service Act. "

The political party also prayed the court to declare that Adeosun "is
not a fit and proper person to continue to occupy the office she
presently occupies having presented a fake NYSC exemption certificate
and made a false, untrue and misleading statement /representation
material to the National Youth Service Corps; and having breached her
oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)."

It, therefore, prayed for a consequential order directing President
Buhari "who claims that his administration is fighting corruption to
immediately sack or suspend Mrs Kemi Adeosun as the Minister of
Finance pending investigation and her prosecution for forgery and
perjury."

The party also prayed for an order compelling "the Office of the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the
Independent
Corrupt Practices and other related Commission, to immediately arrest
and investigate the allegation of fake National Youth Service Corps
exemption certificate against Mrs Kemi Adeosun; and to immediately
prefer a criminal charge against Mrs Kemi Adeosun for the offence of
perjury, forgery, false , misleading and untrue information in
relation to her fake National Youth Service certificate of exemption."