The National Open University Students
Association of Nigeria has has expressed the
dissatisfaction with the non-participation of
its members in the National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) scheme.
The National President of the association, Mr
Nelson Nwaonicha, expressed the
dissatisfaction in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on
Sunday.
Nwaonicha said that the policy of the non-
inclusion of the graduates of the university in
the NYSC programme was discriminatory.
He said that there was great pride in serving
one's country, as the NYSC gave every
Nigerian graduate a sense of belonging,
personal worth and recognition by one's own
nation.
He said that it would amount to
abandonment and violation of the principle
of federal character and integration, if a set
of Nigerian students were not included in the
scheme.
He said that the service was created to
inculcate discipline in, educate and integrate
the Nigerian youth, regardless of their
institutional, cultural and social
backgrounds.
He appealed to the National Assembly to
review the Act establishing the NOUN with a
view to including the graduates in the
allowed age bracket in the programme.
The national president also called on the
management of the university to stop
admitting students for law programmes,
pending the approval of the Nigerian Law
School.
He recalled that the first two sets of law
graduates of the NOUN had not been
admitted into the law school to be certified
to practice their trade. (NAN)
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