The National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, which is the umbrella body for all Nigerian Youth and Youth Organizations has been rocked by an alarming scandal of forgery, public deception, and leadership manipulations.
This comes in wake of discovery of an original Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Constitution of the Organization, which is different from one being circulated and sold to members by the leadership of the Youth Council.
It is reported that for the past four years, leadership of the Youth Council, under Comrade Sukubo Sara-Igbe Sukubo, has been circulating fake documents which were fraudulently altered from the initial Constitution registered and lodged with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, cited as the NYCN Constitution 2018 as Amended.
The 2018 Constitution is equally alleged to have been illegally used to replace the original 2012 version without following due processes of ratification in a National Congress of the Organisation.
Afterward the 2018 version that was already crisis ridden, was recently discovered to have been unlawfully altered repeatedly, with insertion of strange and damaging provisions that empower the President of the Organisation to unilaterally make sensitive decisions without recourse to National Executive Council or any other Organ of the Body.
The Corporate Affairs Commission has issued a Certified True Copy of current document available to it from the Office of the Deputy Director of Compliance Unit, which exposes the other fake version in circulation being sold by the President and National Executive Council.
The purported forged version is said to have been used to deceive and defraud the Organisation, Government at all levels and the general public, as Comrade SUKUBO ascribed undue powers of Secretary of the Board of Trustees to himself, authorized self to appoint Returning Officers to all State Elections, inflated his Financial Approval Limit from Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only to One Million Naira, as well as declarinv the wife of his cousin, Engr. Jack Rich Tien, an Oil mogul and politician, as sole Matriarch in the fake version of the Constitution, with other highly contentious provisions of personal interests.
A group of Concerned Stakeholders who uncovered this act of forgery and Public Deceit has petitioned the Minister of Youth Development, the Inspector General of Police and other Security and Anti-graft Agencies on this matter, demanding immediate and thorough investigations and possible prosecution of culprits.