Often, the months of one year of delay by NYSC may make them unattractive to potential employers that prefer to hire graduates of certain ages. Other arguments against retaining the programme include claims that it is a waste of funds, leads to loss of lives of corps members in crisis-prone or hostile areas, makes youths engage in illicit behaviour during orientation camps where supervision is minimal and adding little value to host communities as young graduates with no formal training in teaching are assigned to teach children in rural areas.
But the biggest argument against the scheme is that the current operation does not even help the objectives of the programme. Prospective corps members with people in prominent positions manipulate postings to states of their choice, hence, defeating the original purpose of the scheme.
There are others who held that the scheme should be reviewed for greater efficiency. For these people, the government can make the scheme optional, or reduce the age limit to 25 years as against the year limit, which is becoming a big problem. So, why should it still be made compulsory for young graduates, by a government that cannot offer you a job after delaying you for years?
Unfortunately, those who are not mobilised have no choice but to stay at home till the next mobilisation, which may still not happen because of the poor state of the economy. Why should we be punished when government fails to get it right? Some have called for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps.
Its critics said the programme had outlived its usefulness. For Prof. Friday Ndubuisi, immediate past Vice-Chancellor of Christopher University, Mowe, Ogun State, with close to 50 years in operation, the scheme has played its role. The academic disclosed that the scheme has served the purpose it was meant to and no longer has relevance in the scheme of things. To some extent, the university teacher said it has compounded the unemployment situation in the country.
The programme needs a hard look. It could be made voluntary and no longer a mandatory scheme for young graduates. A lot of resources go into it at a time viable projects cry for attention.
Nothing is sacrosanct, including this scheme. We are in a world that is pragmatic with new and vibrant ideas that would impact positively on youths and society. The practice of exposing the young ones to danger and untold hardship to a project that has little or no utility is both wasteful and irrational.
The scholar said resources being spent on the scheme could be channeled to other things that would galvanise youths for productive purpose. Why the scheme should remain FOR public analyst, Uche Okosun, the scheme was a noble idea at conception and the ideal is worth preserving. However, he said even before the current security threats, the scheme had been plagued by instances of corruption and abuse by organisations and individuals, including corps members through forgery, indiscipline, immoral acts and truancy at locations of primary assignments.
While describing the programme as a bridge between school and real-life of work, Okosun said the scheme should be tweaked to make it adaptable to current realities. It has also provided temporary employment to graduates of tertiary institutions at least for a year after graduation.
The experience prepared them for lifetime careers, enables them to acquire skills and enlarge their social networks. Okosun identified a lack of planning at national and sub-national levels as the fundamental problem confronting the scheme.
Given the state of insecurity, corps members should be posted to states closest to their states of origin. In effect, those willing to serve in states in their zones of origin should be allowed to do so, while those willing to serve in other places should also be mobilised. In all, we should generate data on the capacity of states to absorb corps members and deploy them in primary assignments most relevant to their training or skills.
He, however, pointed out that the law establishing the scheme should be modified to attract greater financial muscle from federal allocation while posting corps members to different parts of the country should be temporarily suspended for about two years. We need to sustain this achievement in spite of the insecurity that has been threatening different parts of the country. Clearly, the scheme is aimed at encouraging stronger ties at this time because youths have the privilege to interact with people of different ethnic groups, social and family backgrounds.
Should we remove this bond at this time? Also Read: 5 countries that have compulsory youth programs like Nigeria. As the orientation camp draws to an end, Corp members are posted to places where they will be working for the rest of the duration of the NYSC year which is called the place of primary assignment. These postings take into consideration the educational qualification of Corp members eg medicine graduates are sent into the healthcare sector.
One day in a week or sometimes more, Corp members are expected to meet and work towards fulfilling projects in their host communities that will positively impact its inhabitants. These are projects set to solve identified problems in the host communities like HIV sensitization, building of bridges, adult literacy campaign etc. By the end of the year, corps members gather at their respective local governments of their host communities for an assessment and also debriefing about the service year.
Also, places of primary assignment provide their Corp members with a letter of discharge which are in turn presented to Local Government Inspectors.
Those who have successfully abided by the rules and the participated in the programs activities satisfactorily are handed certificates of National Service after the passing out ceremony. We would love to hear what you think about the content on Pulse. Welcome to the Pulse Community! We will now be sending you a daily newsletter on news, entertainment and more.
Also join us across all of our other channels - we love to be connected! A person can wish to defer his or her NYSC by not reporting to the camp. But this must not be done more than once. In other words, you cannot defer more than once. No, NYSC relocation cannot be done twice. Nothing is impossible. So, Yes the certificate can be forged but you should know that NYSC certificates can be verified even online.
Forgery is a crime in the Nigerian constitution and you may go to jail when caught. No, NYSC cannot be done twice. It is against the rules and regulations guiding the scheme.
There might be a handful of people who have successfully gone for NYSC twice but when caught, they will face the law. Remember that NYSC has a database. NYSC program lasts for approximately 12months. These 12months is divided into 3weeks of orientation and 11months of working in the posted facility.
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