The National Youth Service Corps has mobilised about 2.7 million
members since its inception 41 years ago, its Director-General, Brig.
Gen. Johnson Olawumi, said on Tuesday.
He also stated that about 79 persons involved in the illegal NYSC
orientation camp in Keffi, Nasarawa State had been sent to prison.
According to him, the NYSC is contemplating having a meeting with the
National Income, Salaries and Wages Commission to peg the allowances
of corps members to ensure that they benefit anytime there is an
upward review in the salaries of civil servants in the country.
In an interactive session with some journalists in Abuja, Olawumi who
was flanked by the senior management team of the NYSC, also said that
corps members who produced fake medical reports to influence their
posting would be compelled to do manual labour to serve as a deterrent
to others.
He also described as unfortunate comments credited to a former
governor of Osun State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress,
Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, that the Peoples Democratic Party had perfected
plans to use the NYSC members to rig the forthcoming governorship
election in the state scheduled for August 9.
Olawumi said, "As of today, the NYSC has mobilised approximately 2.7
million corps members since inception 41 years ago. This number keeps
on increasing because of the increase in the number of tertiary
institutions and universities."
Speaking on the allegation by Adeleke, the NYSC DG said it was
disappointing that such an allegation was coming from a senior citizen
who was also an ex-governor of Osun State.
"We don't just deploy corps members for election duties, they are just
performing a minute role. Isiaka Adeleke's allegation is very
unfortunate. It is very unfortunate that such a statement is coming
from a senior citizen. Allegations like this are not strange during
elections, after all PDP has also accused the NYSC of planning to
favour the APC in the same Osun governorship election. But we have
received commendation from the observers that monitored the Ekiti
governorship election," he stated.
Olawumi also stressed that the NYSC had made it mandatory to ensure
that before their deployment as ad hoc staff in any election duty,
corps members would receive a large percentage of their allowances to
avoid being influenced by desperate politicians.
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