The
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred pregnant women, nursing mothers
and students engaged in postgraduate studies from enlisting in the national
service across the country, until they are free to participate effectively.
Rising
from a two-day pre-mobilisation workshop for the 2015 Batch “B” NYSC programme,
held in Kaduna, Director-General of the NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, stated
that the exemption of pregnant women and nursing mothers, as well as
post-graduate students from national service was because they would not be able
to undergo the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC.
The
four cardinal programmes include mobilisation, orientation, primary assignment
and winding-up passing out parade.
Corps
members
In
a communique, the NYSC also resolved that henceforth, pregnant women and
children would no longer be allowed into orientation camps across the country
for service under the scheme established by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon
administration in 1973.
Arguing
that prospective corps members must go through the four stages of national
service to qualify to receive certificate of national service, Olawumi faulted
a situation whereby prospective corps members, especially pregnant women and
nursing mothers, would be absent from the stages of the national service, only
to resurface for posting to their various places of primary assignments.
Meanwhile,
the resolution workshop tagged: “ICT and NYSC Mobilization Process: Towards
Eliminating Identified Challenges,” added that henceforth, documents for
concessional posting request on marital or health grounds would be forwarded
on-line as against the old practice of “bringing such to the NYSC headquarters
in Abuja.”
It
noted that prospective corps members would henceforth be given the opportunity
to choose their choice outside their socio-cultural and linguistic areas, using
ICT solution.
This,
according to the NYSC, is in a bid to tackle the problems of deluge of
concessional request with which the scheme is inundated with regularly.
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