I find it funny that the
Federal Government’s promise to increase corps members’ monthly allowances is
now beleaguered with a myriad of excuses, ranging from that of the Minister of
Finance, to the ever evasive Minister of Labour.
Though the National Youth
Service Corps scheme is the government’s way of fostering unity and promoting
patriotism among its citizenry, it is honestly not of much use today. There are
other ways the youths can be empowered and utilized to the growth of this
country.
The Federal Government is
wincing at the expenses it has to deal with yearly, with regards to the scheme;
corps members are not enjoying the service either.
Here are ways the NYSC
scheme can be better shaped by the government, in order to get a more
satisfying result.
Deployment and postings to
places of primary assignment
To me, the number one
reason for the high rate of unemployment is the posting of corps members to
Places of Primary Assignment (PPA). Most offices, schools, companies, etc.,
prefer to exploit corps members in running their businesses, rather than employ
full time workers. I mean, why would anyone prefer to pay a full time worker
above the minimum wage when they can drill and drain corps members to do the
same work for ₦5,000? I know a school that has only two full time teachers –
the rest are corps members. If corps members are not sent to these
institutions, they’ll be forced to employ full time workers.
Now, is the government not
spending a huge sum on the scheme, only for it to keep alive one of the causes
of the unemployment it has been fighting for years?
Somebody might be thinking:
But corps members are needed for election duties. My position here is that INEC
is an independent body that should employ permanent workers of its own. Rather
than spend a lot to train corps members (who are transitory) for election duties,
INEC should have its permanent staff. This would also curb the menace of
unemployment.
NYSC should be a one month
service
Before you write me off,
let me explain.
What’s the point of sending
people into a strange land with barely enough money for transportation, not to
mention the feeding. I find the ₦19,800 insulting to a graduate. Why waste a
whole year of these lives without adding something of value?
What the government should
do is to deploy the youths to different states with the intention of camping
only for one month. Or still, three weeks, of working in the Skills Acquisition
& Entreprenuership Department (SAED) and that’s all.
You see, there’d be no need
for the NYSC khaki. Excerpts from the NYSC 2017 budget showed that apart from
allowances, the NYSC spent ₦2,491,681,500 for kitting of the 297,293 corps
members. That’s ₦2.4 billion plus! And presently, the number of deployed corps
members has gone beyond that estimate.
To think that government
pays so much for those badly sewn clothes. Why not save the money for something
else?
The Skills Acquisition
& Entreprenuership Department should be more pronounced than ever
Incorporating the SAED
program for the benefit of corps members is one of the most important things
the government is doing through the scheme. In light of our proposed one month
service, the SAED should be taken much seriously. This could be by making the
program the major reason for camping. The traditional one week SAED (which is
really not up to five days), should no longer be the case, but rather, a
three-week intensive learning will yield the desired result.
Pay corps members off when
the programme is done
Rather than sit them down
doing little or virtually nothing for the state, and then pay them peanuts at
the end of the month, or till when they’ve grown scraggy and frustrated
(especially for Access Bank customers), the government should empower these
youths who are newly armed with SAED-acquired skills, by giving them a certain
amount of money to establish themselves.
The aggregate of what every
corps members is paid (₦19,800) for the whole service year is ₦237,600. If the
government can pay off the corps members, say ₦200,000, immediately after
camping in order to establish themselves, then the SAED would be useful to them
and unemployment would be a lost story. Those who get employed would have some
savings and money to sustain them till their first pay, while those who prefer
to be their own boss would have a little capital. In that case, the youth is
engaged, and the government also gets to cut down lots of needless expenses.
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