National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
has introduced a self-deployment scheme.
Under the new arrangement, prospective corps members
can now determine where they wish to serve.
The move, according to the NYSC, is expected
to curb fraud which it said is often associated with the earlier method
prospective corps members’ deployment.
The development is part of
resolutions taken at the NYSC 2015 Batch ‘B’
pre-mobilisation workshop held in Kaduna.
In a communiqué released at the end
of the workshop on Thursday, the NYSC said “in a bid to tackle the deluge of concessional requests with which
the NYSC is being inundated, prospective corps members will henceforth be given
the opportunity to choose states of their choice outside their socio-cultural
and linguistic areas, using ICT solution.
“Given the negative implications of
assigning invalid or wrong JAMB numbers to prospective corps members during the
mobilisation process, corps producing institutions have been advised to always
take advantage of the window of opportunity created by JAMB and regularise the admission
of their graduates and advise the affected graduates to activate such numbers before
presenting them for mobilisation.
“For us to bring administration nearer
to everybody, complaints and issues arising from the online registration from
prospective corps members and corps producing institutions will henceforth be
lodged with the Deployment and Relocation officers at the NYSC state
secretariats for onward transmission to the ICT department for necessary
action.
“It was further resolved that pregnant
women, nursing mothers and students engaged in postgraduate studies should not
bother to enlist for service until they are free to participate effectively.”
– The Nation
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