*Anxiety over inability to mobilise UNIBEN graduates for service
Owing to financial constraints occasioned by recession, only 86, 000 would be mobilised for the 2016 Batch B Orientation, from the massive backlog on queue for the national assignment.
According to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), this figure will bring to 260, 000, the total number of corps members mobilised this service year.
The process for this round of mobilisation, which started with the display of the list of all approved programmes for institutions on NYSC portal for cross checking and feedback in mid September, was followed with the collation of prospective corps members’ data by corps producing institutions (CPIs), submission/uploading of senate/academic board approved results for full/part-time graduates and revalidation of lists by CPIs, and the ongoing uploading of corrected lists by corps producing institutions, which ends tomorrow.
Spokesperson of the NYSC, Mrs. Abosede Aderebigbe, told The Guardian in an interview that the number of would-be corps members for the 2016 Batch B, was worked out as a percentage, and sent to heads of corps producing institutions, including vice chancellors rectors of polytechnics, who were directed to send participants based on the figures they were given.
She stressed that it was the limited funds available for use that necessitated the schools’ helmsmen being asked to determine who should go, based on the figures they were given, even as they have been also directed to consider gender, departments among others.
Aderebigbe added that, “We have complained to the minister in our ministry, the Ministry of Finance; committees on youth in both arms of the national assembly and other relevant bodies on the need to increase funding to enable us mobilise more ready-to-serve graduates.
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