The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Dogara Ahmed, has identified several challenges facing the NYSC program, including issues with the quality of graduates, corps member relocation schemes, inadequate facilities, incorrect submission of graduate data, and more.
The NYSC DG said this while delivering a lecture titled “Harnessing the Potential of the Nigerian Youths for National Unity and Development” during the 5th convocation lecture at Edo State University, Uzairue.
Represented by the NYSC Director for the South South Zone, Ladan Baba, the DG mentioned that the NYSC annually mobilizes an average of 350,000 corps members, for promoting national unity and development.
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He said despite the scheme’s numerous achievement, it is still faced with some challenges such as ” inadequacy of orientation camp facilities; poor infrastructure, submission of wrong data of graduates, poor quality graduates being presented for mobilization and deployment as well as corps members relocation racketeering among others.”
He however called on the state governments to live up to their statutory responsibilities to the scheme in the provision, maintenance and upgrading of camp facilities in their domains.
He said the NYSC had contributed to the development of education with corps members serving as teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, noting that they constituted the major manpower especially in the rural communities.
He added that the corp members were also involved in the areas of health sector, agriculture, NYSC ventures, general elections, national census, skill acquisition and entrepreneurship developments.
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The DG said the scheme was established as a deliberate public policy to ensure the realization of the government post-war strategy of Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (RRR).
He added that the objectives of the scheme were to inculcate in Nigeria youths discipline, tradition of industry at work, patriotic and loyal service to Nigeria in any situation they might find themselves.