Corps Members Relocating From Edo Over Non-Payment Of Allowances – NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has expressed concerns over the high rate of corps members relocating from Edo to other states.

DAILY POST reports that the state Coordinator of the Corps, Mrs Frances Ben-Ushie, expressed the concern at the weekend during the swearing-in ceremony of the 2025 Batch ‘A’ Stream I corps members.

Ben-Ushie attributed the high rate of relocation of corps members from the state to a lack of feeding augmentation during the orientation course, as well as non-payment of State allowance to serving corps members.

According to her, lack of feeding augmentation during the orientation course, as well as non-payment of State allowance to serving corps members, had resulted in massive relocation of corps members to other states.

The Coordinator, who called on Governor Monday Okpebholo to kindly intervene in addressing the challenges, opined that resolving the challenges would greatly enhance the effectiveness of the orientation programme and other NYSC activities in the State for greater impact.

She also listed another challenge confronting corps members in the permanent orientation camp located in Okada, Ovia North-East Local Government Area as a lack of provision of annual State subvention to enhance the operations of the scheme in the scheme as stipulated in the NYSC Act.

She also called on the Edo Government to help build more hostel accommodation for corps members at the state’s permanent orientation camp.

Ben-Ushie noted that there was a need to urgently address critical infrastructure and logistical challenges affecting the smooth implementation of NYSC programmes in the state.

While also bemoaning the inadequate environment, she appealed for better workshops, laboratories, and other facilities to enhance the hands-on training for NYSC’s skills acquisition and entrepreneurship programme

“Inadequate hostel facilities for corps members and camp officials continue to pose a major challenge.

“With increasing numbers of participants each year, we urgently need expanded accommodation to ensure comfort and safety.

“We also appealed to the State Governor, Monday Okpebholo to help in resolving electricity and water challenges at the camp. These have significantly increased the operational costs of running the orientation camp.