NYSC dispels alleged increase in corps members’ allowances

From Osakhare Erese Asaba

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure has dispelled as untrue the rumours concerning increment of corps members monthly allowance until corresponding review of the national minimum wage.
General Kazaure who spoke to journalists in Issele Uku community, Delta State NYSC permanent orientation camp during his visit to the camp, assured that the increment may be feasible in the future, stressing that the lingering rumours were unfounded because the NYSC scheme is akin to the public service.
On safety of the NYSC members during the 2019 elections, General Kazaure said that the NYSC was working closely with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , and all the security agencies, even as he assured that the security of corps members was guaranteed.
He called on the Corps members to shun debauchery drugs, advanced fee fraud and other malpractices capable of truncating their future, maintaining that they should remain partisan and neutral in the cause of their national assignment in the elections.
While urging the Corps members to be detribalised, General Kazaure called on them to also resist any financial inducement that would seat their conscience or lend themselves to conduct of violence, adding that they should always remember that “there is no immunity for corps members.”
On the Corps members frequent traveling by road, General Kazaure said, “Management of NYSC frowns at the frequent traveling of corps members, it has in the recent times, recorded deaths among our corps members. I want to use this medium to appeal to our corps members to stop frequent traveling on the roads via commercial vehicles,most of the drivers drink before driving, there should be limits to our traveling outside the camps. We have set up committee to monitor corps members traveling frequently, and bring them to book.”
He, however, commended the corps members for their good conduct since the commencements the combined orientation exercise that has accommodated corps members deployed to Delta,Edo and Bayelsa States, even as he admonished them to be good ambassador of the scheme wherever they find themselves.