SNC says it is criminal for NYSC to charge N4,000 for call-up letters

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Say No Campaign (SNC), a civil society committed to fighting impunity, corruption, electoral fraud and violence among other societal ill, has described the N4000 demanded by National Youth Service Corps for online call-up letter as a callous grand design to steal from unemployed young Nigerians.
A co-convener of the civil society, Ezenwa Nwagwu, at a press conference in Abuja, said it was illogical for people who are yet to be employed and who are being impressed into service of their country to be requested to pay before they can serve their fatherland.
“In another series of callous act which presupposes that no lessons have been learnt from the unfortunate, inhuman and ultimately fatal commercialization of the recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service, another agency of government, this time the National Youth Service Corps Directorate has seen fit to impose a levy on young graduates who are being called up to serve their country,” he said.
Nwagwu went on to state that his group finds the “attempt to raise money that will be looted by officials through the imposition of further hardship on a particularly vulnerable segment of our population as an intolerable act which should be rescinded forthwith”.
According to him, a sensitive leadership should in the face of the deteriorating conditions of ordinary Nigerians, be taking steps to review upwards the stipends and improve the conditions of service for youth corps members rather than orchestrating crude plans to openly extort them.
“No action short of actual withdrawal of the offensive plan, and the immediate announcement of plans to review the stipends and conditions of youth corpers should be acceptable to Nigerians from all works of life,” the co-convener added.