Serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have bemoaned the continued payment of N33,000 as their monthly allowance by the Nigerian government.
The government had announced the increment of monthly allowance for corps members from N33,000 to N77,000, in accordance with the 2024 Minimum Wages Act. The government promised that the increment would be effective from July 2024.
However, Parallel Facts reported how the government failed to fulfil this promise.
In an interview session with some serving corp members, it was confirmed that Bola Tinubu’s administration surprisingly paid corps members their old monthly allowance of N33,000 for September and October, despite the recent approval to increase it to N77,000.
“I was seriously expecting N77,000 and planning how I will buy lots of foodstuffs and sort my other needs when I received a heartbreaking alert of N33,000. Federal government no try for us,”Success an Ekiti corp member lamented.
Another corps member who pleaded anonymity, lamented that the N33,000 is an amount that has already finished on arrival.
“N33,000 is nothing. Practically nothing! By the time you remove transport fare for your CDs every Thursday, plus clearance in addition to foodstuffs. When you enter market to finally buy food stuffs, with the cost of things now in the market, you’ll be frustrated.
“FG should do something. Paying us N77,000 won’t take anything from them. Everyone on the streets are assuming we’re receiving N77,000 when on the contrary the government are paying us N33,000. This is unfair to us. Na fatherland we con serve, no be to dey suffer like this,” the source lamented.
This was also confirmed by two other corps members stationed in Port Harcourt and Kaduna states. These corps members stated that the delay in implementing the increase in their allowance is a complete disregard to their plights at the places of service.
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