Several students in the department of Medical Laboratory Science of Kwara State University have protested their lack of mobilisation for the National Youth Services Corps Plan many years after graduation.
The students who exhibited various banners to indicate their discontent over the matter also bemoaned the lack of regularisation of the programme by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
Several of them then resorted to their Facebook profiles to criticize the behaviour.
According to Abubakar Ramatallahi, “I intended to spend 5 years studying but already 11 years. That’s a decade and one year. Imagine yourself in my circumstances when I have no difficulties with the institution, have not failed a subject, and am yet to be mobilized for NYSC. To serve my country is become a crime.”
For his part, Surajdeen Issa stated “Over 350 graduates are still to be mobilized for NYSC… We do not have additional yearsoorcarryovers. In reality, this is my 5th-year post-graduation and 2nd-year post-induction. However, I am categorized as an undergraduate. We are weary of waiting; we have lost countless employment possibilities. We have ageing parents and tiny ones to care for.”
Barakah Adeniran begged Nigerians to come to their help because they “are weary of waiting, we have been rejected various employment possibilities because of no NYSC certificate”.
Anthony Abel remarked, “We are exhausted, after years of graduation”.
Reacting to the development, KWASU Registrar, Dr Kikelomo Sallee, reassured “the remaining batch of graduands of Medical Laboratory Science who have issues of regularisation with JAMB and mobilisation for Service that the University has not relented in its effort to get the agencies involved to resolve all the issues.
“The University is in regular touch with both JAMB and NYSC as the administration deems it a responsibility to guarantee that no student is left out.
“Officers of the University in charge of these obligations have made the requisite representations to JAMB and NYSC and there is evidence that the problems will be handled in due time.
He noted that as a world-class University, KWASU takes the welfare of its students seriously and would not endanger the future of its graduates
