Fayemi Urges FG To Use Youth Corpers To Fight Insecurity

• He said corps members who cannot join the military services can serve in their community without pay.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has opined that one way to bring the current wave of insecurity to a halt is to recruit a large number of people to join the police and the military, on a short service or otherwise.

To achieve this, he added that the most cost-effective and fastest way to handle this was to amend the law setting up the Nation Youths Service Corps (NYSC).

Fayemi explained that the existing NYSC orientation camps can be used to train willing and able graduates to reflate the security personnel under a special arrangement that will be worked out.

He also said corps members who cannot join the military services can serve in their community without pay.

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The Governor, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), stressed that Nigeria is in need of patriotic statesmen and women and not rumour mongers, ethnic crisis entrepreneurs, provincial men of little minds who see everything from the prism of ethnic and religious conspiracy.

“With this, we can use the existing orientation camps to train willing and able graduates to reflate the security personnel under a special arrangement that will be worked out.

“That way, the fund that is currently deployed to the NYSC can be used with just some additional funding, which could be sourced through a national emergency fund for the next five to 10 years.

“Those who cannot join the military services can serve in their community without pay, if we must still retain the NYSC for everyone,” he said.

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