The governmental prospect of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has actually vowed to eliminate the Joint Admissions and Enlisting Board (JAMB) and ditch the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in its current form if chosen President.
Sowore made the promise in a post on his Facebook account, where he laid out plans to reform Nigeria’s tertiary education admission process and replace the existing nationwide service scheme with a voluntary work program.
“When I end up being President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, JAMB will be abolished. Admission into tertiary institutions must be identified by the institutions themselves under a transparent, merit-based system, not by another layer of bureaucracy,” he said.
The AAC presidential candidate likewise proposed replacing the NYSC with what he referred to as a two-year voluntary National Task Corps.
“The National Youth Service Corps will be ditched in its present kind. In its place, we will develop a two-year, voluntary National Task Corps that guarantees individuals meaningful work, useful skills, entrepreneurship assistance, and paths into irreversible professions,” Sowore stated.
He argued that Nigerian youths deserve higher access to economic chances instead of required federal government programs.
“Nigeria’s youths do not require more mandatory schemes. They require chances, jobs, abilities, and the freedom to pick their future,” he included.
Sowore’s proposition comes a day after the Federal Executive Council approved a thorough reform of the NYSC, including proposed modifications to its allowing Act, the introduction of civilian functional leadership, and deployment of corps members based on their fields of expertise as part of efforts to make the plan more skills-driven and productivity-focused.