Where were we? Part 2 #NYSC Reforms #OccupyNigeria

As I conclude on the question asked on this blog the closing days of 2011…Where were we when things got this bad? In between that time and the first week of January 2012, many issues came up that continues to re-ask this question, where were we. However I was commenting on the NYSC scheme and the planned upgrading of the scheme.  As the government continually looks for a better package for the NYSC scheme, through various stakeholders meetings, the NYSC DG and Minister for Youth has been organizing, a thought keeps coming to my mind…

Every year almost all Para-military formation in the country like: the Police, Civil Defense, Custom, Drug Law, Immigration, Road Safety and other Government agencies does recruitment  of personnel; so the question is why not convert the orientation camp programme into organized lecture/training  period about this agencies, after which corps members are sent to serve compulsory in any of this agencies, then we will be sure to have qualified personnel in this organization, this I believe will save cost of an annual recruitment by such agencies, and after the one year service, those that wish to remain can now be absorbed as full personnel of such establishment.

Another idea, which came to my mind, is the possibility of changing the orientation camp into three months entrepreneurship training, after which trained graduate are given grant (total monthly stipends upgraded) to go start-up their businesses and their after become employer of labour, instead of the existing package where corps members are sent to places of primary assignment (PPA), and most of them are not appreciated, no accommodation or any welfare package to motivate them. To many corps members this one year is an unnecessary delay in their destiny.

Haven said, these I will concluded on the note that if the government do not have anything to offer than what is on ground now, where state government no longer employ teachers, Banks no longer hire permanent staffs and most establishment both private and public follow suit, because they will always be corps members; it’s another form of modern slaveries and exploitation of young people, who after serving for one year are not retained but thrown into the labour market.