NYSC Bars Concessional Postings

 

A recent statement by the Director General of the National Youth Sercive Corps (NYSC) , Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi has revealed a halt to the issues of requests from people seeking for concessional postings for their wards, relatives and friends mobilised for the NYSC mandatory one-year service.

 

Concessional postings have been replaced with a ''self deployment mechanism'' to enable prospective corps members choose a state, where they wished to serve their fatherland.

Olawumi, made the disclosure during an interview at the opening ceremony of a training organised by the NYSC and the Housing Developers Cooperative Society for corps members at the NYSC Orientation Camp Kubwa, Abuja.

Olawumi explained that their online platform was designed in such a way that corps members that have been enjoying concessional posting would not be denied the privileges, urging members of the public to stop disturbing the scheme with their requests, as it would not be granted.

 

Olawumi said, “The NYSC is barring concessional posting, we have to take that decision, because in the past, we allowed concessional posting for prospective corps members, who have medical challenge, or married women or pregnant women, but as it stands now, our online registration platform has been designed in such away to address the problem of those prospective corps members who have health challenges or married women.

“So, all they need to do is that, in the process of doing their registration, there are information these categories of people need to supply and upload. Our portal has been designed in such a way that it will automatically post them to where they filled."

“I want to say that in the past few weeks we have been receiving requests from various quarters; ministries, departments, agencies, private institutions and individuals seeking for concessional posting. I want to say that they are just wasting their time,” he categorically asserted.