Tony Edike
5 December 2008
Enugu — CHAIRMAN of Awgu Local Government area of Enugu State, Chief Uche Anioke has advocated the ban of female participants in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme from carrying out their primary assignments in banks.
He said that some financial institutions in the country have turned such ladies into "banking prostitutes and cheap labour" even as they are given unrealistic targets that expose them to danger.
Anioke, a former commissioner for youth and sports in the state and NYSC member during the 1984/85 session in Oyo State, regretted that the nation's commercial banks, especially the new generation ones among them now turns female youth corps members posted to them into "banking prostitutes" saying the ugly development has defeated the objective for which the scheme was established.
He recalled that the NYSC scheme was established by decree No 24 of 22nd May, 1973 by the then General Yakubu Gowon Regime with the objective of inculcating discipline in Nigerian youths by instilling in them a traditional industry at work and of patriotic and loyal service to Nigeria in any situation they may find themselves.
The council boss who spoke with reporters during a welcome party organized by the Local Government for the batch C 2008 corps members posted to the state, frowned at a situation where some banks would pick a female corps member and sent her out for marketing after setting a target of over N20milion for her.
Such actions of the nation's financial institutions, he noted, has negated the objective of the NYSC, adding that "I don't think the scheme was set up to serve private organizations, it was established to serve the Nigerian public.
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