Victoria Mgbanwa
With the increase in insecurity, The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that the scheme will no longer post corp members to states that are unsafe, due to insecurity issues.
The Minister of Youth, Jamila Ibrahim made this known in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
The minister explained that the scheme has taken steps to secure NYSC members including posting them only to safe states.
She said, “As an immediate intervention of the government and the NYSC as an agency, we have actually stopped posting corps members to the very unsafe states.
“We have been doing it. We have been doing it in the past. There are states we have not been posting corps members to to ensure their safety.”
She further stated that the security of corps members requires collaboration with other government agencies.
“When it comes to security matters, it is a multi-sectoral approach. So, it is not the NYSC alone and the ministry that is involved. We are working with security outlets to ensure corps members are safe.
“We are also working on group transportation strategies for them to ensure that they are transported to and from camps safely and to their destinations.”
“When it comes to remuneration, we are looking at the holistic funding of the NYSC. You are all aware that we have announced a reform of the NYSC scheme itself. We want the scheme to go beyond being a social programme of the government.” She added.
