Companies’ Rejection Of Corps Members Against Spirit Of NYSC

Minister of Youth and Sports
Development, Mr Solomon Dalong on
Tuesday in Lagos lamented the rejection
of corps members deployed to
companies and parastatals for their
mandatory service year. Just as he also
suggested that quarterly orientation
programme be adopted for corps
members as against the one done every
four months.
Dalong who spoke during the inspection
of NYSC camp at Ipaja and at Surulere,
Lagos said: “The rejection of corps
members by both private and
government organisations is highly
regrettable.” He said that circulars have
been sent to various organisations to
accept corps members into their
organizations because they are on
national service.
Relating his experience he said: “One of
the instances I met on ground here
(Lagos) was that the corps member was
irregularly rejected because she was not
given a letter from the company to
indicate that she was rejected. “Her
deployment letter was officially stamped
by Nigeria Port Authority without date
after which they sent her back without
explanation.”
According to him, organisations are
suppose to accept this corps members
and put them to use, adding that if the
corps members have over stretch their
facilities, they should write and indicate
such in their correspondences and not to
sent the corps member away without
explanation. He maintained that Corps
members should not be rejected on lack
of good reasons.
The Minister who frowned at a situation
where people choose to accept corps
members based on certain erroneous
sentiments said that many times,
considerations are given to people based
on who you know. ” This is against the
spirit of the scheme itself,” he said. He
explained that the scheme is intended to
build confidence in Nigerians, to promote
national integration and national unity
adding, “when corps members are
rejected based on certain consideration,
it negates the fundamental principles of
the scheme”
Meanwhile, the Minister also suggested
to the director general, NYSC, General
Johnson Olawumi that orientation camp
should be quarterly. He explained that
when the scheme was created, the
initiator never took into consideration
that there will come a time in Nigeria
when the output of graduates will be far
above the initial contemplation.
“Base on numbers of graduates every
year, it is good we start thinking of how
we will adopt a quarterly orientation
programme. He said: “With the increase
of tertiary institutions in Nigeria, if we do
not adopt the quarterly orientation
programme now, a time will come when
the upsurge of graduates will over match
the capacity.”
Speaking in the same vein, the Director
General, NYSC, General Johnson
Olawumi who was present at the
occasion said he was pleased with the
advice of the Minister, noting that he will
work toward the actualisation of the
initiative