ABUJA – The NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawunmi, said on Wednesday that all tertiary institutions’ graduates were fully mobilised for their national youth service.
Olawunmi said this when he featured on the News agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja.
He said the management of the scheme had always respected the NYSC Act which says that “all Nigerian graduates of polytechnics and universities must go through the scheme’’.
“When this scheme started some 41 years ago we mobilised annually, may be less than 10,000.
“But as we speak today, annually we mobilise as many as 250,000 corps members. These are organised in three batches.
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“Government has been doing a lot to sustain the scheme.
“What we just do is to make sure that we look at what is approved for us. We ensure that we comply to make sure that we run the programme.
“The responsibility for the scheme cuts across the three tiers of the Federal, the State and the Local Governments.
“So, there are things that are mandatory that the federal government provides; there are those that are provided by the States and by the Local Governments.
He said it was difficult for the management of NYSC to exclude any graduate from national service because of the laws establishing the scheme.
Olawunmi said that as there was increase in the number of tertiary institutions in the country, the scheme was also experiencing increase in the number of graduates to be mobilised for national service. (NAN)[eap_ad_3]