Mobilisation of part-time graduates by some corps producing institutions for service has been identified as one of the challenges that has compounded the process of mobilising legitimate graduates for the one year National Youth Service. This, has impacted negatively on the yearly projections and planning of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
This was the position of the Director General of the scheme, Brig. Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia, while declaring the 2012 Batch ‘C’ Pre-mobilisation workshop held at the Rockview Hotel, Abuja open, recently.
He said that the scheme has therefore commenced collaboration with the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education who have both furnished it with the approved carrying capacity of each institution, which according to him, would be relied upon by the scheme in processing submissions from institutions for mobilisation.
Okore-Affia? said that some institutions indulged in late submission of data of prospective corps members and added that when such list was rejected, they go to the extent of enlisting the interest of highly placed personalities to pressure and arm twist the scheme to accept them. He therefore appealed to the student affairs officers that the time-table adopted in the workshop was sacrosanct and should be strictly adhered to.