Government agencies and parastatals will soon be mandated by the President Bola Tinubu administration to accept corps members assigned to them for their mandatory one-year service.
Addressing newsmen in a press conference on Monday, the Minister for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, disclosed that a memo will be sent to President Tinubu to ensure the acceptance of corps members.
The federal government on November 19, 2024, lifted the ban restricting the posting of corps members to the public sector, allowing them to be posted to private sector organisations.
Speaking on the memo which has been sent to the NYSC, Olawande shared that the ministry has instructed the removal of barriers to the posting of the corps members.
He added that the rejection of corps members from some agencies and parastatals is something the ministry is aware of.
“Let them post them first, then we would tackle the rejection. In part of the memo that we sent to the NYSC, we clearly stated that there is no barrier.
“Before now, there was a barrier that corps members could not be posted to this and that. Banks come and take them.
“If you don’t have experience in banking, how do you want to know that you are good at accounting or whatever? We should stop lying to ourselves. And this is also part of how you should learn whatever you studied.
“Very soon we are also going to send a memo to the President to tell any government parastatal and agency not to reject anymore.
“It is a process; we can’t do everything at once. The one in our capacity, we have thrown it out. So, on the barrier, we are also waiting, I know about that too. We will work, and that is why teamwork is good,” Olawande said.