You go further to Section 12, which provides that any person seeking employment must be required by the employer to produce his NYSC certificate. Again, you take it to Section 13 that prescribes for certain offences and penalties, including forgery of certificates under the Act, which is the issue that relates to Kemi Adeosun.
Now, let me take you to the Constitution, what is the requirement for a person to be made a minister? Again, I refer you to Section 147 of the Constitution that has essentially three conditions. The person must be 25 years of age; the person must be sponsored by a political party, which he must also be a member; the person must be appointed by the president; and must also have, at least, SSCE or its equivalent.
Abati: I get the point that you have made but, you also know, as an officer in the temple of justice that a court of law does not necessarily go on a voyage of discovery. It will deal with matters that are presented before it, and I think you have already made that point.
The simple reason why the government has not charged her or prosecuted her for forgery is that there was no forgery. Now, coming to the issue of the basis of the allegation of forgery. Was there an investigation? Now, in her resignation letter, she said ‘I have today become privy to the findings of the investigation into the allegation made in an online medium that the certificate of exemption from the National Youth Service Corps that I had presented was not genuine.
So, the government, I’m afraid, does have a case to answer. Let’s see the investigation report if it exists. But our evidence is that there was no investigation report. The second, if any person born after independence, that is after October 1st 1960, either of whose parents or whose grandparents were a citizen of Nigeria.But I understand the point my learned friend has made regarding the definition of citizenship under the 1979 Constitution.
If this is a government that fights corruption, if this is a government that pretends to have integrity, I challenge the Attorney General of the Federation, I challenge the Vice President because his office has also been mentioned, they have a responsibility to disclose to Nigerians who actually obtained that document and handed it over to Kemi Adeosun and tell us why that person is not on trial.
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