*Awards N5m costs to the Governor

The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has has been cleared of the forgery of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), discharge certificate. 

This was as the Federal High Court in Abuja restrained the corps from further denying the genuiness of the certificate issued to the Governor.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, held that evidence fiked before the court showed that Mbah properly participated in the NYSC programme and that he was issued the discharge  certificate in dispute.

He declared that the NYSC misrepresented facts in its claim that it did not issue the certificate which Mbah submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the last governorship election.

The judge faulted the NYSC for not producing before the court, two files containing information about Mbah’s participation in the programme, noting that it (NYSC) handled the case with levity.

He also awarded N5 million in damages against the NYSC, and in favour of Mbah.