Nigeria’s Minister of
Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said he can still partake in the mandatory
one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.
It was recently discovered that
Shittu did not participate in the scheme, after graduating from the University
of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU), despite finishing school below
the required minimum age of 30.
The Minister had defended the
act, saying his first political post after graduation as a member of the Oyo
state House of Assembly, could suffice as national service.
In an interview with Edumund
Obilo, an Ibadan-based journalist, the minister said he is willing to join
fresh graduates in the scheme “if it becomes necessary”.
Asked if he is willing to still
serve, Shittu replied: “Of course I will go. It will be a pleasant thing to go,
after I have been governor by the grace of God.”
Obilo asked him “what camp would
you like to serve in?”, to which he responded: “Whichever camp. I will serve in
any place if it becomes necessary for me to go. If it becomes necessary, I
will.”
Shittu, however, insisted his
political service supersedes participating in the mandatory scheme.
“The courts would have to decide
whether serving in the house of assembly and being minister is not superior and
does not replace service in the NYSC.
“I am not Kemi Adeosun because I
didn’t have any forged certificate of exemption. She didn’t forge, she was a
victim of circumstance,” he added.
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