Following public outcry over the N4,000 call-up fee the
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC is set to demand from corps as registration
fees, the House of Representatives yesterday began a probe.
Based on the allegation, the House has called on the
management of the NYSC to suspend with immediate effect collection of the fees
required from prospective members before collecting their letters with effect
from 2015.
Honourable Hassan Saleh PDP, Benue
State, who sponsored the motion, expressed concern over “recent advertorials in
some national newspapers that with effect from 2015, corps members will be
required to register online with a fee of N4,000 to be able to access their
call-up letters as an alternative to going to their various schools to collect
the letters.”
He said: “As laudable as the idea
of sending call-up letters through the internet may be, the decision requiring
fresh graduates to cough out N4,000 to access letters appears insensitive and
exploitative.”
However, just as the presiding
officer, Emeka Ihedioha was about calling for voice vote on the matter, Uzo
Azubuike (PDP, Abia), came up with a Point of Order, saying the Public
Petitions Committee, which he chairs, was already on the matter.
After this observation, Ihedioha
called on the Chairman, Rules and Business Committee, Albert Sam-Tsokwa (PDP,
Taraba) to guide the House.
Sam-Tsokwa explained that since
the public petitions committee had began investigating the matter, the
honourable thing to do was for the motion to be withdrawn.
Ihedioha ruled that Commi-ttee on
Youth Development and the sponsor of the motion be invited to be part of the
panel that will conduct a session on the matter.
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