Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen Johnson Bamidele Olawumi has cleared the air on the controversy surrounding the recent introduction of a N4,000 fee for online printing of call-up letters by prospective youth corps members, insisting that the innovation is for the safety and in the interest of the prospective corps members.

He also stated that it would be most beneficial to foreign-educated Nigerians, whom before now had to come to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja to process their call-up letters, saying they can now process their call-up letters online wherever they are, if they choose to exercise that option.

Speaking in an interview in Abuja, he explained that in view of digitalisation and the realisation that some prospective corps members reside far away from the institutions from which they graduated, the recent innovation was to cut off the risk of having them travel to the institutions to get the call-up letters, adding that the online service was however optional and totally at the discretion of the prospective corps members.

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