The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Ismaila Maharazu Tsiga, during his visit to the Kano State orientation camp on Saturday said, the leadership of the NYSC would continue to lobby government on the need to increase corps members' allowance to N50, 000 per month, and make the security of lives and property of corps members paramount.
Tsiga disclosed that the allowance given to corps members was a right and not a privilege, calling on states, local governments and parastatals to also review allowance given to corps members. He added that the new allowance of N19, 800 to corps members would take effect from March this year.
According to him, the new allowance would be paid in arrears from March, 2011, saying that Batch B, 2010 corps members who just passed out, are going to receive their arrears of about four months.
This really make sense. It will be nice if accepted and implemented by the government without making undue noise about it.
l strongly support the motion moved by the Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Ismaila Maharazu Tsiga, "Corp members' allowances is a right and not a privilege". Federal and states government must acknowledge that.