The NYSC DG has said there would be no arrears for Corps Members, because they are not Civil Servants but on National Service.
Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said the budget allocated for the scheme by the Federal Government made it impossible to pay minimum wage arrears to Corps members.
However, Brig. General Shuaibu, commended the Federal Government on the recent increase of Corps Members’ allowance.
NYSC allowance was captured in the 2020 budget of the Scheme, payable with effect from January this year, which therefore precludes the payment of arrears.
“Corps Members are NOT Civil Servants, they are on National Service and the commencement date for the payment of the increment of their allowance is January 2020 which the Federal Government has started“, he concluded.
However, the DG warned Prospective Corps Members with fake credentials to stay off its Orientation Camps across the country.
He added that anyone caught, especially graduates from the universities in West African sub-region with the intent to undermine the integrity of its mobilisation process with fake certificates would be arrested and prosecuted.
The Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim gave this warning in his office in Abuja.
He said that the NYSC Scheme had put necessary mechanism in place to curb the enrolment of fake graduates for the Orientation course, and would continue working diligently in that direction.
The DG noted that the Scheme had made tremendous achievements in the fight against unqualified graduates who try to infiltrate the Scheme.
Ibrahim added that during the 2019 Batch ‘C’ online registration, over twenty thousand foreign – trained Nigerians uploaded their results online, however, during the physical verification exercise, just 3,420 showed up. This out come is because they have been forewarned that anyone caught with fake certificate would be prosecuted.
If you have reasons that you think Corps members should be paid minimum wage arrears, use the comment section below.
oops this is not normal please they should please involve the corps members even though they are not a civil servant they do deserve increase in there areas
How do you want us to look at this president buhari government that said he is fighting corruption when we are been rob of our arears brought day light if am to be ask whether this buhari government is good or bad government i will say that it is bad government because am still thinking and comparing this president buhari government to former president good luck johnatan government why did president good luck johnatan pay arears during is government and you want me to believe you are fighting corruption plesae pay us our arears i dont whether you people dont have shame we work for it it is our right we work for it under the sun and rain our sweat and suffering want to be embezzelling buy president buhari and nysc director general shuaibu ibrahim just like that beg us to dash you the money and we will dash you and not stealing but tricks corrupt leaders as you do to us so shall it be done to you in one way or another God is watching
As long as we work for the federal government we civil servant and we need our arrears
DG u should stand for us as a leader to fight for our minimum wage arrears, this will not reduce u anything rather to increase your reputation, help us