Famous singer turned politician, Olubankole Wellington, a.ok.a Banky W has defined why the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, should be optional in Nigeria.
Banky W, who made this assertion on Tuesday throughout an interview on Channels Television, acknowledged that the NYSC program hasn’t achieved the whole lot it was designed for since its existence.
“I don’t know if there is anyone that will disagree that NYSC in all probability does not obtain the whole lot it was initially designed for right now, so how do we reform it? Don’t cancel it, let’s take away it from the structure and make it optional, the folks who do not want it will go.
“Now you can pay those interested more so instead of paying them N30,000 monthly which does nothing for a young person in Nigeria today. We can pay them N60 – N80, 000,” he mentioned.
