NEWS: NYSC introduces self-deployment scheme, bars expectant women, nursing mothers

NYSC introduces self-deployment scheme, bars expectant women, nursing mothers

THE management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has
introduced a self-deployment scheme making it possible for prospective
corps members to determine where they wish to serve.
Besides, pregnant women and nursing mothers have been barred from
participating in the scheme, until after weaning their babies and declared fit
to engage in the national service.
The decision to introduce self-deployment into the NYSC, according to the
management, is expected to curb fraud, which it said was often associated
with the earlier method of deployment of prospective corps members.
The development is
part of resolutions
after an NYSC 2015
Batch 'B' pre-
mobilisation workshop
held in Kaduna.
The Director of Corps
Mobilisation, Mr.
Anthony Ani, told The
Guardian that the
decision to introduce
self-deployment and
also bar pregnant
women and nursing
mothers from the scheme were part of the resolutions to enhance the
effectiveness of NYSC activities.
Meanwhile, in a communiqué at the end of the workshop on Thursday, NYSC
officials said that, "in a bid to tackle the problem of 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 the 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 on-line 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 and nursing mothers and
students engaged in postgraduate studies should not bother to enlist for
service until they are free to participate effectively."
Participants at the workshop included directors and heads of units at the
NYSC, representatives from the NBTE, JAMB, Nigerian Army, universities,
polytechnics, monotechnics as well as from the colleges of education.