on october 20, 2014 at 6:50 pm in news
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By Emman Ovuakporie and Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA-THE House of Representatives Committee
on Youth Development has endorsed the N4,000
for the online registration of members of the
National Youth Service Corps ,NYSC.
Chairman of the committee, Rep Kamil Akinlabi
revealed this while giving update on the
investigation into the new policy, during a media
chat with House of Representatives Press Corps.
Akinlabi said that the fund would be used for
installation of equipment at the NYSC offices
nationwide adding that the fund would enable the
contractor handling the project to recoup
investment within five years.
The House after the adoption of a motion
sponsored by Hassan Saleh, directed NYSC
management to suspend forthwith the policy
requiring prospective Corp members to pay the
sum of N4,000 with effect from 2015 to access
their call up letters.
Akinlabi said: “from the onset, when the matter
was brought to our attention, the first thing we
felt was the way you are feeling but after
constructive engagement, we discovered that it
was an innovation that we can’t run from.
“First, it was not the responsibility of the NYSC to
mobilize respective Corp member to get their call-
up letter, it is the responsibility of the parent. If
somebody schooled in Lagos but lives in Kano
and to get his call-up letter he has to travel to
school.
He explained further that “so you will discover
that it’s time consuming, risky and very
expensive. So what the NYSC has done is to
partner with a consultant that is already handling
similar project for JAMB and WAEC that has
eliminated similar risk to partner with them
through PPP arrangement.
“And that PPP arrangement will be on Built
Operate and Transfer. What are the terms of
agreement? The contractor would be responsible
100 percent for the purchase and installation of
every gadget that will be necessary to achieve
that in all the 36 headquarters including FCT and
in all local government headquarters as well as
all orientation camps across the country.
“So, when we look at the cost of getting the
equipment purchased and installing in all those
strategic points, how will they recoup their
investment since government is not injecting a
penny?
They proposed N6,000 so we interacted with
them that there is no way this should be on a
very high side.
“But when they came up with the debt payback
system they agreed with the bank. The amount
and the interest they agreed, we discovered that if
they couldn’t get their money within 5 years, it
will not be a good business for them, so what is
the minimum or maximum we can agree to make
them recoup their money on time?
“So in order to ask them to go through the
normal process and see if the federal government
will be able to adapt the process and finance it.
But in the process, the Public Procurement was
contacted and they had a certificate of No
Objection. And we discovered that Concessionaire
Commission was not carried along whether there
will be a better way of handling this type of issue.
” But we discovered that the only thing we could
do is to get the cost of N6,000 reduced. So when
we got that approved we summoned the NYSC
DG and his team, they came.
“To say Nigerians should pay more than N6,000
is not possible, so they came with N4,500 and
later they agreed for N4,000. So they will now be
operating after installing the equipment for five
years and later transfer the equipment because it
is Build Operate and Transfer.”
In his lead debate, Saleh frowned at the
imposition of N4,000 on thousands of fresh
graduates across the country, called for the
intervention of the House to stop the extortion.
He maintained that “as laudable as the idea of
sending call up letters through the internet may
be, the decision requiring fresh graduates to
cough out N4,000 to access the letters appears
insensitive and exploitative.”

Source: Vanguard Newspaper.

Chai Nigerian youths don suffer for this country.
U'l have to pay four thousand naira before you get your NYSC call-up letter the same way 1,500naira was dubiously collected for a sham immigration recruitment exercise

These stvpid house of rep members will never come up with anything creative that will move the country forward except,child marriage,Increasing their own sitting allowances and this one. Useless brainless dullards.

TAN Jonadaftretardeen heheheh! Collect N 1,000 for TAN, pay N 4,000 for letter, if they ever go to university! Hahahaha...

Too bad!

Trust me, this matter will die down before a week!

This house of reps are compounding the problem of this country everyday, y nau? Remeber that Diaris Godu oooo.

This house of reps are compounding the problem of this country everyday, y nau? Remember that Diaris Godu oooo.

sunnyshayne:
Trust me, this matter will die down before a week!

The matter don already die

oga o

Nigerians just want every every to be free! If we want to pick our call-ups from the comfort of our homes we have to adjust our mindset. How can we be move from "developing" to "developed" without sacrificing some of our pleasures? BTW, the report says it will be stopped in the nearest future as this is just a take off point (start up is most times herculean).

Finally it still came down here....
Nice plan from the nysc directors....dat is if the money don't go down the pocket of one big boss.

House of corruption defence! The way immigration N1000 was debated and swept under carpet, FRSC new plate number fee, and now NYSC !!!!
We know from the beginning that this debate will be another public excuse for shaving nigeria heads.
Nigeria budget can accomodate, buying generators and cuttleries in aso rock with hundreds of millions, feedinding of pets forr millions, but can't accomodate this;
Nigeria's problem is corruption if we can unite to fight it, this nation will develop

thunder wey go fire una go market,go buy pump-action

Tambuwal led house of representative

Issues like this go make u dey wonder the need of National Association of Nigerian Students

e bi like say their major function na to dey give Award of Exellence to politicians

Nigerian youth got what they deserved.

House of Representatives Committee
on Youth Development has endorsed the N4,000
for the online registration of members of the
National Youth Service Corps ,NYSC

Tambawal is an evil man along with those eedeeots in the parliament. I call on us all to reject all of the parliamentarians(Senators and Reps) at the polls irrespective of party affiliation. Tambawal is a monumental disgrace, a fraud worse than Jonathan

barcanista:
Tambawal is an evil man along with those eedeeots in the parliament. I call on us all to reject all of the parliamentarians(Senators and Reps) at the polls irrespective of party affiliation. Tambawal is a monumental disgrace, a fraud worse than Jonathan

Now you are talking.

anonimi:


Now you are talking.

We may not necessarily disagree on every issue boss