PROTESTS by serving National Youth Service Corps members across the country over the delay in the payment of their monthly stipend amid events marking the scheme’s 50th anniversary reignite the public discourse over its continued relevance and retention in its present format.
But the NYSC has lost much of its potency. Corruption reigns. Some now pay bribes or wield influence to choose their preferred posting. The number of participants has risen from just about 700 in 1973 when the country had only five universities, to scores of thousands. Nigeria’s 170 universities now churn out about 600,000 graduates yearly. From a single intake format, the NYSC now has multiple ‘streams’, and batches, taking up to four batches each year.
The Nigerian state has evolved. There are new needs, new concerns, and new frontiers. The NYSC has outlived its usefulness in its present form. Advances in communication, social and economic mobility and greater access to education have made the diktat of “national unity” obsolete. In the riots that accompanied the 2011 presidential elections, mobs killed over 800 persons in several northern states; Among them were youth corpers, deliberately targeted because they were non-indigenes.
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