National Youth service?
To me, the whole thing is a joke. Employers of Labour either see you as slave labour or not useful enough to handle any real responsibilities. And the pay? Terrible. A few are lucky; but the greater percentage of corps members are not. Some organizations have taken advantage of the scheme to save costs. How? They have a consistent turn over of corpers every year, hardly retaining any after working them to the bone.
The scheme itself isn't left out. They often times don't pay allowances for apparently no reason. When you make a complaint they go right ahead and credit your account. They look for even more flimsy excuses to give service extensions. What about the NYSC local government officials? They have become demi-gods in their various local governments making life as miserable for corps members as possible. If you ask my opinion, the whole scheme is a complete waste of time. And it gets even more annoying when you consider the fact that every organization wants to see an NYSC discharge certificate. Their argument? It's supposed to foster national unity and make us better youths. I can say with confidence that it hasn't done that.
I could be bolder still and say that those that graduated before 1973 are a much better generation than we've had since then.
My thoughts.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 12:00pm
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