ABUJA — THE Senate, Thursday, directed the Federal Government to carry out a reorganisation of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, just as Senators lamented that the scheme was no longer fulfilling its mandate of entrenching national unity.

The directive was upon the consideration of a motion sponsored by Senator Sahabi Yau and 33 others. Senator Yau, while moving the motion, decried the subjection of Corps members to harsh conditions including poor pays and rejections by government organisations, which contradicts the purpose of the scheme.

He said: “This noble national programme has recently been buffeted by sundry challenges, including attacks on some of them. These heinous attacks on these youths are compounded by organisations that serially and unjustifiably reject them from undertaking their primary assignment under them.”

Before ruling on the motion, Senate President, David Mark lamenting that the Scheme has lost coordination, criticized prospective corps members who influence their postings to towns.He added that such practice has led to the overcrowding of towns, thereby making most of the corps members redundant without place of primary assignments.
He said, “There are many corps members who will go and get posting letters without their parents. We are running into series of problems because of this and I believe that that the NYSC at the moment is bedeviled with lack of proper coordination.
“We need to go back to the drawing board and reorganize NYSC in such a way that it original intention of bringing national unity is achieved.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/senate-seeks-review-of-nysc-scheme/

My only hope is that during this review, consideration should be given to corp member as regard the "freedom of selecting " of state to serve since some state now in nigeria are 'no go area'

screw unity.
scrap the damn program.
policy makers should come up with community service programs that are suited to the 21st century, needs of the communities and does not involve uprooting young ones and throwing them in the face of danger across the country.
What bloody unity? providing cheap labour for banks and multinationals?