Graduates to be mobilsed by NYSC would have to wait for few weeks, following the inability of the NYSC to immediately raise enough money to take care of their basic needs in the various camps.
The DG of NYSC, Brig. Gen. Sulyman Kazaure, who stated this in Abuja on Monday, attributed the reason to the unavailability of funds arising from the N13bn shortfall in the agency’s 2016 budget.
Kazaure, who addressed the Senate Committee on Youth and Sports, said the affected prospective corpers were those in the Batch A, Stream 2.
They were supposed to be mobilised into the 37 orientation camps across the country this Friday.
The NYSC DG said, “As of today (Monday), the required money for the exercise has not been provided by the Federal Government, despite a series of efforts made to that effect through letters over the past (few) weeks by the NYSC.”
Kazaure said the request letters to get operational funds for the mobilisation were forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Finance, and the Presidency before the expiration of the orientation camp for Batch A, Stream 2 corps members without any favorable response.
His words, “We are presently at a loss in the NYSC now as there is no money for us to mobilise thousands of prospective corps members in the Batch A, Stream 2 to camp this Friday as earlier planned despite efforts made by us to get things done in that direction several weeks ago.
"The problem staring us in the face arose from the N13bn shortfall we had in the 2016 budget estimate."
He, however, expressed the hope that a last-minute intervention might be made by the Presidency.
He explained that the Chief of Staff to the President had invited the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, to see him over the matter.
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