NYSC DG Explains Why PPAs Reject Corps Members And Why Demand Reposting To States
The National Youth Service Corps, or NYSC, has provided a list of some of the reasons why corps members most frequently ask for reposting.
Yashua Dogara Ahmed, the Director-General of the Scheme, claimed that parents are mostly to blame for the tendency while speaking at a media conference to commemorate the NYSC's 50th anniversary on Tuesday at the Yakubu Gowon House in Abuja.
He made the point that most parents are concerned about security difficulties in the nation and would therefore put pressure on their kids to ask for a change of place of employment.
Speaking further, Ahmed added that majority of the reasons why employees reject corps members are self-inflicted.
According to him, in the majority of situations, corps members are the ones who put pressure on their Places of Primary Assignment to reject them because they have other plans.
However, he cautioned corps members to remain in their assigned locations for the duration of their one-year duty and should not modify their own or anybody else's fate.
"We always tell corps members not to allow anyone to deceive them or change their destiny. It's destiny that has taken you to your place of service.
"We have thousands of Nigerians through service who never go back to their states of origin. So, the problem of relocation here and there is the parents because of fear and apprehension."
"I'm aware of corps members asking for a change of their state of primary assignments. Most of the time this is spearheaded by the parents because of this apprehension," he said.
"Sometimes we talk youth corpers out of it and won't ask for it again. I have visited over 10 orientation camps and I've always convinced corps members to stick to the posting.
When asked why corps members are stationed so far from their home states, he continued, "It's true that we station corps members far from their homes. The service's primary purpose is that.
"They have to be posted to other places different from where they've been. Yes, there are security challenges but I don't think any parent takes the security of corps members seriously more than the way we are taken about it.
"The security agencies take the security of corps members more seriously than any other thing... it's the apprehension of parents but we don't blame the parents because sometimes you hear what's happening somewhere and you'll just imagine.
"We don't deploy corps members anywhere there's security challenges. We're parents too. We'll not post somebody's child to crisis prone areas."
When asked about the PPAs who had rejected corps members, he responded, "Most of the rejections of corps members at sites of primary assignments are self-influenced.
"They go to directors and ask to be posted to a particular place and you know they will not be posted anywhere else until they're rejected in the first place.
"Then these corps members will go to their employers saying 'please reject me'. They'll be pleading for rejection. There are societal issues involved in some of these things. If every corps member will take their posting in good faith, the case of rejection will be minimal."
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