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The Nigerian Bar Affiliation Part on Public Curiosity and Growth Legislation has urged the courtroom to sack the Minister of Artwork, Tradition and Artistic Financial system, Hannatu Musawa, from workplace for allegedly violating the Nationwide Youth Service Corps Act.
The organisation additionally requested the courtroom to compel the NYSC to nullify the certificates given to Musawa and a music promoter, Kenny Ogungbe, alleging that the issuance of the certificates was opposite to the provisions of NYSC Act Cap N84.LFN 2024.
The plaintiffs within the go well with marked FCH/ABJ/05/90/2024 are the Chairman, NBA-SPIDEL, John Aikpokpo-Martins, and Secretary, NBA-SPIDEL, Funmi Adeogun.
Musawa, Ogungbe, NYSC, and the Federal Authorities of Nigeria are the primary to fourth defendants, respectively within the go well with.
The plaintiffs alleged that the mobilisation of Musawa and Ogungbe for the necessary one-year nationwide youth service after exceeding 30 years of age was illegal, unlawful, and an affront to patriotism.
Additionally they alleged that Musawa and Ogungbe’s purported nationwide service and the certificates of service purportedly issued by the NYSC had been null and void.
The plaintiffs are in search of a declaration that, “By advantage of the provisions of Sections 2(1), 12(1), and 13(1) of the Nationwide Youth Service Corps Act, Cap. N84 LFN 2004, the first and 2nd defendants will not be entitled to be engaged as workers by any employer of labour or companies (together with the Federal Authorities of Nigeria) with out first possessing and presenting their certificates of Nationwide Youth Service.
“A declaration that the first defendant shouldn’t be entitled to proceed to carry the exalted workplace of Honourable Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or any public workplace in Nigeria after violently violating with flagrant impunity the provisions of Sections 2(1), 12(1), and 13(1) of the Nationwide Youth Service Corps Act, Cap. N84, LFN 2004.”
The PUNCH stories that the Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria had accused Musawa in August 2023 of serving as a minister whereas enterprise the one-year necessary Nationwide Youth Service Corps scheme.
Equally, in October 2023, there was a stir on social media when Ogungbe shared a photograph of himself within the NYSC uniform, saying that he had completed NYSC on the age of 53.
Efforts to get Musawa proved abortive as calls to her quantity indicated it was not reachable. Response to the message despatched to her was being awaited on the time of filling this report.
