by Isi Esene
The National Youth Service Corps has defended its newly introduced policy which requires prospective corps members to pay N4,000 before accessing their call up letters online.
The agency which mobilizes Nigerian graduates for their compulsory one-year service to the nation debunked rumours in certain quarters that the new system was introduced for exploitative reasons.
According to Olubunmi Aderibigbe, the NYSC’s spokeswoman, the policy is actually in the interest of the corps members.
Aderibigbe who defended this policy on Friday in Abuja said what the NYSC has done is to reduce the cost associated with collection of call up letters.
She said, “It is wrong for anyone to assert that NYSC is exploiting prospective corps members through the new computerized process.
“Some people seem not to know what some of prospective corps members go through before collecting their call-up letters; many of them travel several kilometres away from their homes just to get the call-ups.
“What we have done is in fact to reduce the cost and risks associated with the collection of the call-ups and to eliminate sharp practices associated with the old process,’’ she said.
Aderibigbe wondered why some people would tag the new system as exploitative, noting that many prospective corps members spend more than N5,000 to get their call-ups.
She said the management of NYSC remained committed to the welfare and wellbeing of corps members and would not in any way exploit them.
Wel, its optional nt mandatory. If u fink d money is much den dnt pay, shikenah
who postulated dix idea d govt or who?cos is just un called for
stupid pple with stupid ideas
plz,let go back 2 military regime
for me,i will not pay d fee 4 any reason
cant really site d importance of dis democartic system
we need a revolution in dis state
corpers responsibility are for d govt not otherwise
useles. people. is not meant to be free?
diaris god in evertything we are doing ooo.
instead of creating employment opportunities, they dey extract us.
they shou;d scrap this nysc thing sef. it makes no sense to me.
nigeria, we hailll oo. una no dey fail oooo.
where will dat money go into?dy just wan dry us for dis nation
@maliki malika, you must be stupid for that answer.
okay, we have heard, money is the problem
when will nigeria stop exploiting its youths?
out of the small allawe, dem go collect five thousand naira again. hiaan.
is it dat nothing comes out free in nigeria again
i call it greediness.
later they will increase it to 1000 naira, just wait and see.
nawa oooooo,naija with dre money package
hmmmmmmmm. naija and thier yeye policies
@ella, which amount are yu talking about? we shouldnt pay at all sef
na wa ooo, naso dey wan exploit us?
The amount is still too expensive. they are to serve the nation for God’s sake, so their first experience in the NYSC cycle shouldn’t be to part with N4,000. This is exploitative
Let the amount be reduce at least