Insecurity Of Corps Members As A Triggering Fueling Factor For The Repeal Of Nysc Act

Insecurity Of Corps Members As A Triggering Fueling Factor For The Repeal Of Nysc Act

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

The NYSC scheme is an action in which the government of Nigeria requires graduates of tertiary institutions to serve the country for one time in colorful establishments around the country. This is a scheme aimed at nation structure by promoting public knowledge and knowledge, as well as the growth of Nigeria’s youth and frugality. Inviting youths to serve the country was therefore seen as a deliberate and clear trouble to fight challenges to a prosperous, unified, and tone- reliant nation. This includes breeding nationalism, hard work, forbearance, and integrity in the youth. It also involves the need to raise their collaborative knowledge, encourage them to pursue jobs in their primary assignment, and fete the significance of living permanently with indigenous people after the service program. It’s amicro-initiative that focuses on social change by a group of Nigerians who are seen as the country’s implicit leaders( SandaA. 1976 cited in YemiB. 2015).

This youth service trial isn’t exclusive to Nigeria, as shown by studies of youth service in other nations, which indicate that the action has been used to address a variety of issues defying youthful people in particular. Sherraden and Eberly noted in their review of the youth service program in the United States that these problems include severance, substance dependence , drunkenness, aggression, crime, and educational imbalance( Sherraden MichaelM. & Eberly DonaldJ.( 1982) cited in YemiB.( 2015). It’s generally assumed that by sharing in this service program, youths will be reformed and come active members of society.

Sherraden etal. have also linked three main shoes and reasons for calling on the youth to serve. The first is that youth service is seen as a type of mortal development program that molds people’s capacities and personalities in ways that educational institutions have plodded to inseminate. The alternate explanation is that youthful people are seen as a public resource with the capacity, versatility, and inventiveness to address social and profitable requirements that are beyond the compass of traditional institutions.

The third explanation is that numerous people believe that youthful people are demanded to break social issues similar as violence, substance abuse, and severance. Youths, it has also been suggested, may play an important part inpost-conflict societies.

Youths can serve as social capital or work force in situations like Nigeria after the civil war, according to Eberly etal., by furnishing voluntary weal, profitable, health, and social services. It gives youthful people an occasion to identify with the state, stay pious to the state, and represent the state. It also provides them with a means of contributing topost-conflict societies. likewise, service literacy is bettered, in which youthful people gain academic chops and profit through meeting the requirements of others, among other effects, and therefore can prop in the reconstruction ofpost-conflict communities.

Following the Nigerian civil war in 1973, the National Youth Service Corps( NYSC) was formed to involve Nigerian university graduates under the age of thirty( 30) in nation structure. still, given the security pitfalls that have racked the program, similar as hijacking of corp members, fear of insurrectionary attacks on NYSC camps, hostage extremity, and assassination of corp members, there have been calls for it to be scrapped.

thus it’s against this background that this study is set to examine instability of fraternity members as a driving factor for the repeal of NYSC Act quested in CAP. N84 of 1974 constitution during 2nd Republic.

Statement of the problem

There are numerous challenges that have hovered the actuality of the NYSCprogramme.The complexity and confines of the program’s security pitfalls have expanded as a result of the country’s swells of instability challenges. lately, the Boko Haram side, backed by their lemon- blast terrorism in Northern Nigeria, has nearly inseminated fear in the minds of parents and Nigerian graduates awaiting NYSC deployment. The reports of the Boko Haram side’s bombing of the NYSC endless exposure camp in Maiduguri had the media buzzing( The Guardian 2014). Thousands of university graduates are produced each time, and they frequently hold their knees on the carpet, soliciting for providence’s hands of God to keep them from being posted to the terror- overran countries of Borno and Yobe, Kaduna and other insurrectionary regions. It’s a matter of Nigerian history that thousands of NYSC actors posted in colorful sections of the North have beenre-deployed to other countries where the wind of protection is stronger in order to complete their NYSC programmesafely.Another cause for concern is the taking of hostages and the hijacking of fraternity members. While the hijacking of fraternity members began in the early times of the program, it has lately escalated into a full- fledged hijacking . The recent heinous act of hijacking and violating to death a womanish fraternity member, Grace Adie Ushamg, serving in Maiduguri, Borno State capital on September 26th, 2009 for the single offense of wearing khaki trousers impelled the media and the public assembly to join parents in the debate on the NYSC and security question; what should constitute its nature as well as the perpetration procedure( Vanguard 2009 cited in YemiB. 2015). Ogechi Martins, Chijioke Richard, and Esther Nwachukwu were kidnapped from the Ogonokom Corper’s Lodge in Rivers State in 2013. After ten days in prison, they were released. Mbu Joseph Mbu, the Commissioner of Police, added that five people had been restrained in confluence with the hijacking of the three fraternity men( OkaforC. & AniJ. 2015). A former NYSC Director- General reprobated the country’s torrent of hijackings , claiming that fraternity members had come a attraction for kidnappers. therefore, in view of the below issues, the council has resolved to repeal the scheme as public insecurity worsens through the relinquishment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020( https//gazettengr.com). thus it’s upon this premise exploration is set to examine is set to examine instability of fraternity members as a driving factor for the repeal of NYSC Act.

Ideal Of The Study

The main focus of this study is to examine instability of fraternity members as a driving factor for the repeal of NYSC Act. Specifically it seeks

1. To examine NYSC act and a review of the programme.

2. To probe the part of the scheme

3. To examine the dimension of security pitfalls that’s driving the repeal of the programme.

Exploration Question

the following exploration questions guides the study

1. What’s the part of the NYSC programme in Nigeria?

2. Has public instability challenges affects fraternity members stationed in countries?

3. What are the security challenges that has harrow NYSC programme and corp members?

4. Is instability a significant factor driving the repeal of NYSC Act?

Significance of the study

This study will be significant to policy makers, NYSC officers and graduates. This study will enlighten lawgivers and the government on the significance of assessing the bill repealing the NYSC, taking into account the counteraccusations for adding the severance rate and heightening the smiles of felonious exertion in thecountry.According to NYSC officers, the study will allow them to advise policymakers on the complications of the program and the significance of the program in general, which may change the repealmovement.The study will be helpful to graduates and expose them to seeking other meaningful ways to survive, either by going into entrepreneurship in the absence of a white- collar job. Eventually, the study will contribute to the body of knowledge and serve as reference material to experimenters in policy studies.

Compass Of The Study

The compass of this study borders on the instability of fraternity members as a driving factor for the repeal of NYSC Act. it’ll examine NYSC act and a review of the programme. It’ll probe the part of the scheme and it’ll examine the dimension of security pitfalls that’s driving the repeal of the programme. The study is still limited to named NYSC secretariats in Kaduna State

Limitation of the study

The following posed to be a constraint to the study

fiscal constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

still in the midst above mentioned limitation the experimenter devotedly assured that the purpose of the study was formed.

Description Of Terms

Instability the state of being open to peril or trouble; lack of protection.

NYSC The National Youth Service Corps is a program set up by the Nigerian government to involve Nigerian graduates in nation structure and the development of the country.