States Govts Suspend Payment of NYSC Members

Due to the continuous economic crunch which has hit the nation, some state governments have suspended the payment of monthly allowances to members of the National Youth Service Corps.

The Punch Newspapers is reporting that some states actually stopped paying these allowances more than a year ago, for instance, Kwara State stopped paying corps members over two years ago.

Before now, the states paid corps members posted to their domains a stipend to augment the N19,800 allowance paid by the Federal Government.

“We have not been paid a dime since November last year. What we were told at the beginning was that the government would pay us after the end of our service year, but we later learnt that the promise was just fake,” said Mayowa, a corps member.

In Bauchi State, North Central Nigeria, the corpers have resorted to organising extra-mural classes for primary and secondary school pupils to augment their allowance as the state government have stopped paying them.

“No explanation has been given as to why we have not been paid our allowances. We have not been paid for January. We don’t know what is happening; all the state government just told us is that we should bear with it.