The House of Representatives is considering discontinuation
of the National Youth Service Corps scheme.
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is billed for
the second reading.
The sponsor, Mr Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory
memorandum of the proposal, listed the various reasons why the NYSC should be
scrapped.
It read in part, “This bill seeks to repeal Section 315(5)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended) on the following grounds:
“Incessant killing of
innocent corps members in some parts of the country due to banditry, religious
extremism and ethnic violence; incessant kidnapping of innocent corps members
across the country;
“Public and private agencies/departments are no longer
recruiting able and qualified Nigerian youths, thus relying heavily on the
availability of corps members who are not being well remunerated and get
discarded with impunity at the end of their service year without any hope of
being gainfully employed;
“Due to insecurity across the country, the National Youth
Service Corps management now gives considerations to posting corps members to
their geopolitical zone, thus defeating one of the objectives of setting up the
service corps, i.e. developing common ties among the Nigerian youths and
promote national unity and integration.”
The military regime of General Yakubu Gowon had established
the NYSC on May 22, 1973, under Decree No. 24 of 1973 as a way of reconciling
and reintegrating Nigerians after the civil war between July 6, 1967 and
January 15, 1970.
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