{"id":104895,"date":"2023-05-19T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104895"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:18:25","slug":"enugu-governor-elect-mbah-slams-n20bn-suit-against-nysc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/enugu-governor-elect-mbah-slams-n20bn-suit-against-nysc\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu Governor-Elect Mbah Slams N20bn Suit Against NYSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Governor-elect in Enugu state, Dr. Ndubuisi Peter Mbah, has slammed\u00a0 N20bn as exemplary damages against the National Youth Service Corps\u00a0 NYSC, and its Director, Corps Certification, Ibrahim Muhammed, over alledged\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cconspiracy, deceit and misrepresentation of facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, it would be recalled\u00a0 had last\u00a0 Monday, upon a motion ex parte by Mbah\u2019s lawyer, Emeka Ozoani, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), made \u201can order of interim injunction restraining the defendants, NYSC and Muhammed from issuing, publishing further disclaimer that the NYSC certificate dated January 6, 2003, with \u201c number: A808297 issued to the plaintiff\u2026 by Section 11 of the NYSC Decree No. 51 of 1993, was not issued by NYSC pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed in this suit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the build-up to the March 18, 2023, Gubernatorial election, Mbah who ran the\u00a0 under\u00a0 the plartform of the Peoples Democratic Party was accused by some opposition political parties of presenting a fake NYSC certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In its response letter dated February 1, 2023, and signed by its Director of Corps Certification, Ibrahim A. Muhammad, the NYSC denied issuing the certificate to the Enugu governor elect.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a result the development, Mbah approached the court for an order of interim injunction restraining the NYSC and its directors from issuing and publishing disclaimers with respect to the certificate saga.<\/p>\n<p>Aside the N20bn damages he is demanding, Mbah, in the writ of summons by his counsel, is equally seeking a declaration that he participated in the NYSC scheme for one calendar year with a call-up letter number FRN\/2001\/800351; Lagos code LA\/01\/1532; and upon completion was issued a certificate of National Service No. A808297.<\/p>\n<p>The writ equally\u00a0 seeks \u201ca declaration that the defendants\u2026 conspired by fraudulent design, suppressed, and misrepresented facts in the supposition that the plaintiff\u2019s certificate of national service with number A808297 was not issued by the defendants, a fact they knew or ought to know as untrue or incorrect, which act constitutes an act of conspiracy.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nFurther more, \u201ca declaration that the defendants were negligent and maliciously misrepresented facts, which facts the defendants know or ought to know as untrue and ought reasonably to have foreseen that damages would flow from such negligent misrepresentation of material facts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA declaration that the predominant purpose of the deceitful misrepresentation was intended, albeit to inflict damages in the legal profession, politics, and business, as it was to unlawfully profit the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn order that the plaintiff\u2019s certificate of national service number: A808297 is authentic and was validly issued by the 1st defendant.<\/p>\n<p>Also, \u201cAn order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants both jointly\/separately, their officers and servants in whatever manner and however called, from disclaiming, resisting, or repudiating the certificate of national service number: A808297, issued to the plaintiff, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the plaintiff, upon completion of his NYSC service, was issued NYSC certificate number: A808297, dated, January 6, 2003, certifying that he completed the one year of NYSC from January 7, 2002, to January 6, 2003.\u201d among other orders.<\/p>\n<p>The oil magnet, and his deputy, Ifeanyi Ossai would be sworn in on May\u00a0 29, 2023. 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