President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration would take all necessary actions to maintain and improve the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme as a functional vehicle for the promotion of national unity and integration.
This is just as the Director General of the scheme, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, said there were plans to make the scheme voluntary and reduce the corps population to make the programme more sustainable.
Buhari gave the assurance after receiving a briefing from officials of the Federal Ministry of Youth Development led by the Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Rabi Jimeta.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made available to State House correspondents after the briefing, the president affirmed his confidence and trust in the programme, saying that the objective for which the scheme was established in 1973 was still relevant for national development.
Buhari said: “I firmly believe in NYSC and I think it should remain a national programme to promote integration. Whenever I go home to Daura, I look out for corps members from Lagos, Aba and other parts of the country.
“I am always thrilled to learn that except for the NYSC, some of them have never left their states of origin to visit other cities in the country.”
The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, told the president that there were plans to make the scheme voluntary and reduce the corps population to make the programme more sustainable.
Why will Buhari make the NYSC scheme a voluntary or optional for our young graduates? Is this man grossly confused? Can someone advise him to know he is a President of a United Nigeria? Can some tell this confused man how not to disunite a country? Is his Islamisation agenda.
Surely this man is on a clear mission to to destroy Nigeria. The NYSC is the only institution that still keeps the country united. It is the only institution where Nigerians meet as Nigerians irrespective of religion or race.
People are expecting the President to perform magic but nothing happened, important appointments were not made. No Secretary
to the federal government, no ministers, no Chief of Staff and other vital
appointments hs been made,he should concentrate on more important matter apart from the NYSC
We won’t tolerate lame lamentations from
anyone for selfish reasons ,even if it is the president, reason,after all,he is just making empty promises which he has not full fulled, president go slow