The N40, 000 the Nigerian Peace Corps is taking from mostly unemployed youth who seek job placement in the organisation covers the running cost and provision of materials, its National Commandant said on Thursday.
Dickson Akor said during a press briefing in Abuja that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission had investigated the movement as far back as 2004 and cleared it of any wrongdoing.
“The ICPC has investigated us in 2004 and established that the money is going towards training materials and we’re not extorting money from the youth,” Mr. Akor said.
He added that the Peace Corps also pay instructors to train its members at its training facilities across the country.
“We have been holding workshops and training our members and we buy them training materials and also pay honorarium to their lecturers,” Mr. Akor said.
“We also pay our existing staff and not a single one of them is earning less than N40, 000 per month even though we’re not getting any support from the government right now.”
The comments came hours after the Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives harmonised the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill to give the group, which had operated as a volunteer organisation for 18 years, government backing.
The bill is expected to be forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent.
Mr. Akor said the organisation would stop charging for services once the bill is signed into law.
“Immediately the president assents to this bill, nobody will pay a dime to be trained,” Mr. Akor said. “Nobody will pay any money for registration.”
Mr. Akor said the Peace Corps will create employment for the Nigerian youth to “promote the culture of peace” by providing community service and neighbourhood watch for nation building.
He said the services are currently not being rendered by the police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps or any other existing security agencies.

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how would this country grow when all the government does is pay huge salaries to unproductive entities??

APshit

Luizkid:
how would this country grow when all the government does is pay huge salaries to unproductive entities??

but the country has been growing all this years, while paying you. How productive is your entity to this country?
Every youth must enjoy the country's resources. Congrats NPC

OK...

Don't we have enough security operatives/force?

This is corruption


Anyways I heard Buhari is dead

Hope it is not true?

So they can't provided them for free yeye country

k

I Don forget watin I Wan talk.

Tonyebarcanista, we are waiting for you to come & defend this!

Mynd44, over to you we wan know ur views bcoz if na under GEJ administration, u go talk sey na corruption!

Na wha

You don't take money from job applicants. It's unacceptable anywhere.

Nigeria don't need any Peace Corps with the Nigeria Civil Defense already in existence.


Akor your Peace Corps was the first to Scam me befor MMM.

I did this nonsense in 2002 with nothing gained

But they are job applicants

Give them 5 years and the same government may consider scrapping it. The enforcement agencies we have are enough. Which peace these ones wan give us?

Nigeria needs a total overhaul

Wen there is no money to pay the existing institutions on ground, then u are talking mumu corps. Smh
That bill will never be assented to!

No matter what... Pple are not supposed to be extorted of money while looking for work.... If the unemployed are living large, I believe they won't stress themselves to look for work in Peace corps

I refuse to pay that.....

DIKEnaWAR:
Don't we have enough security operatives/force?

is the npc like the npf?

I keep wondering how this people will employ everyone they have been Recruiting since 2003....

Everything must get why in dis country. Apc: why d economy didnt work.
Army: why idp camp got blown up
nlc: why we call off d strike etc
what is why self?

Another Highly Irrelevant Parastatal

can anyone confirm how much they pay the trainees after paying the initial 40k for sign up?

It starts from here.

Nigerians devising ways of scamming fellow country men both legal and illegally. Another bad venture.

Nawa oo

They should just scrap the damn thing, the only person benefiting from it is the commandant. Do we even need another paramilitary organization?

Princess4ng:
No matter what... Pple are not supposed to be extorted of money while looking for work.... If the unemployed are living large, I believe they won't stress themselves to look for work in Peace corps

peace corp is still voluntary organisation like boy scout, Man o war, Boys bridgade, etc definately you have to pay for everything.

It's another branch of nscdc they should be merged.

Na scam una take start your wahala