Stop disturbing NYSC staff for concessional posting, DG warns..
Story by Edward Jaleyemi
The Director General,
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, has disclosed
that the scheme would no longer entertain request from people, seeking for
concessional posting for their wards, relatives and friends for mobilisation
during the NYSC mandatory one year national service.
Olawumi, who was
speaking during the opening ceremony of the training organised by the NYSC and
the Housing Developers, Cooperative Society for Corps Members at the NYSC
Orientation Camp Kubwa, Abuja stated that the scheme has introduced a self
deployment mechanism to enable the prospective corps members choose a state,
where they wished to serve.
The DG while urging
members of the public to stop disturbing staff of the scheme with their
requests for concession, disclosed that their online platform was designed in a
way that corps members that had a genuine reason for concession, would not be
denied.
“The NYSC is barring
concessional posting, we have to take that decision, because in the past, we
allowed concessional posting for prospective corps members, who have medical
challenge, or married women or pregnant women, but as it stands now, our online
registration platform has been designed in such away to address the problem of
those prospective corps members who have health challenges or married women.
“So, all they need to
do is that, in the process of doing their registration, there are information
these categories of people need to supply and upload the documents, our portal
has been designed in such a way that it will automatically post them to where
they filled.
“I want to say that in
the past few weeks we have been receiving requests from various quarters;
ministries, departments, agencies, private institutions and individuals seeking
for concessional posting. I want to say that they are just wasting their time,”
he stated.
The NYSC DG explained
that the training for the corps members organised by the scheme and the Housing
Developers’ Cooperative Society was aimed at training and graduating skilled
manpower in housing sector.
“The inauguration of
200 youth corps members for training in special areas of labour need in the
housing development sector reaffirms our pledge to give useful skills to every
willing graduate partaking in the national service,” he said.
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