We Did Not Slash The Allowance Of Corp Members - NYSC

Last week the media was awash with the news that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has slashed by 25 percent the allowance of Corp members. This not only caused tension among serving corp members but portrayed the scheme in a bad light.

Yesterday the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure not only denied the allegation but described it as “wicked Falsehood”

He maintained that the report was to create confusion in the country, urging corps members and the public to disregard it.

Kazaure, made this known in a statement signed by the NYSC Director of Press, Mrs Abosede Aderibigbe, in Abuja, insisting that corps members’ allowance still remains N19,800.00.

The statement reads in part “The Management of the NYSC hereby refutes the content of mischievous information circulating in the social media to the effect that corps members’ allowance has been slashed by 25 percent. “The scheme vehemently dissociates itself from this wicked falsehood meant to create confusion in the polity. The Director-General of the NYSC is Brigadier General SZ Kazaure and he never made any comment as claimed by the brains behind the damaging publication. “Management hereby categorically states that corps members allowance remains N19,800 and not reduced to N14,800 as wickedly portrayed by the social media release. “For the avoidance of doubts, we unequivocally restate our unalloyed commitment to the welfare of all corps members at all times. “Corps members and the public should therefore ignore this misleading information and go about their duties lawfully without fear.”