Reavealed: Communications Minister, Adebayo Shittu Did Not Participate In NYSC

Another Buhari Minister In NYSC Scandal

Another minister in President Buhari's administration has been accused
of failure to participate in the mandatory National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) scheme.

This is coming barely a week after Kemi Adeosun was forced to resign
because the NYSC exemption certificate she presented was fake.

Communications minister, Adebayo Shittu has been accused of not
serving in the scheme after graduating from the Obafemi Awolowo
University (OAU) in 1978 at the age of 25.

This is according to an investigative report by Premium Times, which
also revealed Shittu finished his Law school in 1979 and was elected
into the Oyo State House of Assembly the same year.

Having obtained a bachelors degree at the age of 25, Section 2 of the
NYSC Act expects Mr Shittu to have participated in the one-year
national service.

Those exempted by the law are those who graduated after their 30th
birthday, persons with national honours and individuals who serve in
the military and intelligence organisations.

However, in his reaction to the accusation that he skipped the
mandatory one year service, the minister said he believed that having
been elected lawmaker, he needed not participate in the national
service.

He said he deliberately skipped the NYSC scheme because he was
convinced that his membership of the state assembly was itself a
"service."

"The constitution provides for the qualification needed for state
assembly members, NYSC is not there."

"I didn't need it to become a member of the state assembly, and that
is already a service," he said.

Despite deliberately skipping the NYSC scheme and without having any
exemption certificate, Adebayo Shittu went on from being a state
lawmaker at a young age, to becoming an attorney general and
commissioner for justice in Oyo State, and currently a minister in
President Buhari's cabinet, as well as occupying various other public
offices.