The bill seeking for the scrapping of the compulsory one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme have attained second reading in the Federal House of Representatives.
The bill which seeks for the NYSC scheme to be repealed, is sponsored by Mr Awaii-Inombek Abiante, member representing Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Federal Constituency.
The bill memorandum read in part;
“This bill seeks to repeal Section 315(5)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended) on the following grounds:
“Incessant killing of innocent corps members in some parts of the country due to banditry, religious extremism and ethnic violence; incessant kidnapping of innocent corps members across the country;
“Public and private agencies/departments are no longer recruiting able and qualified Nigerian youths, thus relying heavily on the availability of corps members who are not being well remunerated and get discarded with impunity at the end of their service year without any hope of being gainfully employed;
“Due to insecurity across the country, the National Youth Service Corps management now gives considerations to posting corps members to their geopolitical zone, thus defeating one of the objectives of setting up the service corps, i.e. developing common ties among the Nigerian youths and promote national unity and integration.”
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