NYSC DG Warns Individuals To Stop Seeking Posting

 

The Director-General, National Youth Service

Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi,

has appealed to private, public institutions

and individuals to stop seeking for

concessional posting of prospective corps

members.

The Director-General revealed this on Monday,

September 21, at the opening ceremony of a

two weeks skill acquisition training

programme in Building Technology for corps

members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation

Camp in Abuja, News Agency of Nigeria

reports.

He said the scheme would no longer grant or

accept such requests as the online

registration platform has been designed to

take care of such problems.

 

Olawunmi said: “The scheme has for the past

few weeks received various requests from MDAs

of government, private institutions and

individuals seeking concessional posting.

“They are just wasting their time; we are not

going to do any concessional posting for

anybody. If we concede to this it will be killing

the objective by which the scheme was

established which is national integration.”

He noted that the scheme in the past had

granted concessional postings for prospective

corps members who either had medical

problems, was pregnant or a nursing mother.

The Director-General said the scheme had

chosen the housing sector as a key

component of its skill acquisition training for

corps members to address youth

unemployment.

 

He also said that the nation had gained in

areas of trained labour force and improved

output quality through the course of

empowering the youths through vocational

training.

Meanwhile, the director-general of NYSC, has

dismissed reports of the scheme banning

pregnant women and nursing mothers from

orientation camps.

Olawumi said: “We did not ban pregnant

women and nursing mothers from orientation

camps. In the past, we have had cases where

pregnant women and nursing mothers came to

camps to participate in the NYSC activities.

These are people who should come for service,

but rather, we see ourselves managing them.

 

Naij.com