THE National Board of the National Youth Service Corps has rejected requests for the inclusion of a compulsory one year military training for corps members. The board said giving corps members a year of military training without absorbing them into any of the military services would be dangerous for the country. Chairman of the NYSC board, Alhaji Tijani Adekanbi, told the acting Niger State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto, at the Government House in Minna that the members of the board met recently on the issue and suspended the matter. Adekanbi said, “The primary reason why the NYSC cannot give military training to corps members as is being requested is because after the one year military training there is nowhere the corps members will be posted. “If we give them one year military training we have to absorb them into any of the services. If they are allowed to be on their own it will be dangerous for the country.” He said the scheme was currently working out a guideline that must be followed by all corps members while embarking on their Community Development Service to ensure that “over ambitious projects with huge financial demands are not embarked upon.” He enjoined those patronising the NYSC CDS projects to scrutinise the projects properly and contact the NYSC secretariat before supporting the idea. On the issue of fake NYSC camps and fake NYSC certificates, the chairman called for more vigilance on the part of employers of labour, insisting that there is no way the NYSC discharged certificates can be forged. He therefore asked employers of labour to always crosscheck the validity of the NYSC certificates tendered by their workers. He also said that influential Nigerians who made their children evade the mandatory one year service were subjecting them to risk in the future as they would not be eligible for employment or qualified to contest election without the discharge certificate. Ibeto said the NYSC scheme had assisted the Niger State in the implementation of its education and health programmes through the provision of qualified manpower. “The NYSC scheme has been able to make Nigerians know every part of this country, it has made our youths to know the true situation on the ground in the states where they served,” he added.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:25:21 +0000
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