House Suspends NYSC N4000 Fee

House Suspends NYSC N4000 Fee

The House of Representatives yesterday directed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to suspend forthwith its policy requiring prospective corps members to pay N4,000 as registration fee before accessing their call-up letters.
Prompted by a motion sponsored by Hon. Hassan Saleh (PDP, Benue), it also instituted a probe into the alleged fee.
This came as the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Centre (NFIC) bill passed third reading on the floor of the House yesterday.
According to Saleh (PDP, Benue), the “recent advertorials in some national newspapers that with effect from 2015, corps members will be required to register online with a fee of N4,000 to be able to access their call-up letters as an alternative to their having to go to their various schools to collect the letters appears insensitive.”
He said: “As laudable as the idea of sending call-up letters though the internet may be, the decision requiring fresh graduates to cough out N4,000 to access letters appears insensitive and exploitative.”
Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, upon a petition by Hon. Uzo Azubuike (PDP, Abia) that the public petitions’ committee he chairs was already working on the matter, ruled that the committee on youth development and the sponsor of the motion be invited to be part of the panel that would conduct a session on the matter.
Meanwhile, House Leader, Mulikat Akande-Adeola, who moved the motion for the third reading of the NFIC bill, explained that when established, the centre would be responsible for receiving, requesting, analysing and disseminating financial intelligence reports and other information to law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies and other relevant authorities.
Last Wednesday, the House adopted a report of the committee on drugs, narcotics and financial crimes which recommended establishment of the centre and raised a six-man committee to meet with the Senate with a view to harmonising the positions of the two chambers on the adopted report.
The harmonisation committee would be led by Hon Albert Tanimu Sam-Tsokwa (PDP, Taraba), while members of the committee included Jagaba Adams Jagaba, Emmanuel Udende, Nnenna Elendu-Ukeju with two other lawmakers.
The committee was given two weeks within which it should meet with the Senate and get back to the House.