Corps members to get N250,000 for self-employment
AGENCY REPORTER
The Federal Government has concluded arrangements to release N250,000 to any corps member who opts for self-employment after undergoing the national service.
The NYSC Director-General, Brig-Gen. Muharizu Tsiga, made the announcement on Wednesday at Ede, Osun State, while addressing corps members during a familiarisation visit to the orientation camp.
He said government was aware of the hardship faced by fresh graduates after the mandatory one-year service and had taken necessary measures to ease their burden.
Tsiga urged interested corps members to start preparing their feasibility studies and submit them to his office in Abuja, through the state coordinators.
He noted with regret the inconveniences at the various orientation camps, and promised that the scheme would start enforcing the rights of corps members, especially in the provision of comfortable accommodation.
Tsiga said: "Corps members don't have to pay rent. They are expected to be accommodated free. Where there is none, they are to be paid in lieu of accommodation to make them comfortable.
"They also have the right to be redeployed if they have genuine reasons, but must follow due process in facilitating such redeployment at the office of the state coordinator.''
The director-general added that it was wrong for corps members to request for redeployment from his office in Abuja, while sideling the state coordinators.
He warned that he would no longer attend to such requests.
Tsiga explained that the scheme had a mandate of ensuring that nothing negative happened to any corps member, adding that adequate security measures had been provided for them.
"Security agencies will be coming to deliver lectures. We have also asked community leaders to ensure security in their areas of primary assignments. It is, however, important that the corps members are disciplined too,'' he added.
