NYSC Extends Service Of 23 Corps Members In DeltaOUT of the 2,714 Corps members discharged last week by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for 2015 Batch B Stream 1 set, 23 of them have been placed on extension for various offenses committed during the duration of the service year, The Pointer has learnt.
The extension implies that some of the corps members have their service year extended by one month, two months and 12 months, which is a calendar year depending on the gravity of the offense.
The affected corps members were handed down various penalties for lack of commitment to duties and negligence in their Primary Place of Assignment (PPA), abscondment from work for one to three months consecutively and other related offences earned them the penalties.
It was also gathered that out of the 23 affected Corps members, seven were remobilized (four males and three females) – they are to start the entire process of one year service to the nation afresh.
The state Coordinator of NYSC, Delta State, Mr. Omotade Ayodele Benjamin, who confirmed the extension of service to our correspondent, said,’’ They were apprehended during the course of national service; some of them abandoned national service and they are to repeat the service year for what we call abscondment in our own language in NYSC.
‘’When you break your service for a continuous period of three months, automatically you will repeat the service year because, in line with the NYSC Act, you are to continue with your service for a period of 12 calendar months.’’
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