Reps Deliberate Scrapping NYSC as Bill Reaches Second Reading
The House of Representative is deliberating scrapping the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, scheme.
the Alteration Bill, 2020, of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which seeks to amend the NYSC Act is scheduled for second reading.
Justifying the move, the sponsor, Mr Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, highlighted the various reasons why the NYSC should be scrapped.
It partly read, “This bill seeks to repeal Section 315(5)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended) on the following grounds:
“Incessant killing of innocent corps members in some parts of the country due to banditry, religious extremism and ethnic violence; incessant kidnapping of innocent corps members across the country;
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