Federal Government has overruled the National Youth Service Corps on the redeployment of corps members from troubled states.
Minister of Youth Development, Alhaji Inuwa
Abdulkadir, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
Abdulkadir insisted that corps members would be posted to Borno, Yobe
and other troubled states.
His positing supersedes an earlier concession granted
to the affected corps members by the Director-General of the NYSC,
Brig.-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia.
The DG, had in a statement on July 5 directed corps
members posted to Yobe to proceed to Nasarawa State, while those
scheduled to have their orientation in Borno were directed to Benue
State.
The minister argued that the issue of posting of
corps members to states other than their states of origin was enshrined
in the relevant laws establishing the scheme.
Abdulkadir said any other form of concessional
posting of corps members apart from the grounds of health and marriage
would require constitutional amendment.
On the resolution passed by the House of Representatives, he said the position of the ministry remained the position of the law.
The House had in a resolution said the NYSC should halt posting of corps members to troubled states.
The minister said, “Talking about the National
Assembly’s resolution vis-a vis our position here. My position is that
of the law.
“The fundamental thing is that the NYSC is a
constitutional issue; the constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, which is supreme.
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