NYSC : Students crys out on banned universities.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has placed a two-year ban on Benue State University and the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, from sending their students for the mandatory year of service due to discovery of negli­gence and evidences of age manipulation.

However, the Vice Chancellor of Benue State University, Professor Moses Kembe, reacted during a meeting with the Scheme pleaded for leniency.

Kembe had in the meeting which ended in a deadlock, maintained that the university management was not involved in age manipulation. He explained that the age limits were manipulated by students.

Graduates of the affected Universities were denied access to the NYSC registration portal on Monday. One of the affected graduates, Issac Mbanefo, while calling on the scheme to lift the ban and punish only the culprits involved, that it was wrong for the NYSC to victimize innocent students for an offence committed by a few.

He said, ”How do you correct an offense by placing a ban on innocent students, what do you want them to do at home for two years? In a country where you cannot get a decent job without NYSC, do you expect our parents to continue feeding us?”

Another graduate, identified as Matthew Eboh said, ”Sometimes I feel NYSC does not understand the plight of the common Nigerian, how logical is it to place a ban that will affect innocent students for two years, why don’t they ban the suspected students instead of the whole school? I doubt if they thought of this decision.”

The affected graduates are calling on the scheme scheme to lift the ban and punish only the culprits involved.