HURIWA condemns malicious report on NYSC Trust Fund

The   Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as malicious and totally fake, a report on the soon to be inaugurated NYSC youth’s Trust Fund by Sahara reporters.

HURIWA in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Comrade Onwubiko, said the online paper falsely reported that the NYSC Youth Trust Fund is actually a retirement payment scheme for top military Generals.

“Nothing can be further from the truth and to journalistic. It is so unprofessional and unethical for any media outlet to churn out wholly fabricated tales in the guise of a news report.

“We in HURIWA have followed through the processes of advocacy campaigns for the passage of this bill and indeed we even presented a professorial text supporting it before the National Assembly.

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“HURIWA believes that the NYSC Youths Trust Fund existentially, empirically and factually has nothing to do with military Generals because under the Act setting up NYSC since over 48 years ago, the NYSC is not a military project but a project for Nigerian Youths which is why NYSC is under the supervisory purview of the federal ministry of youths and sports controlled by a civilian.

NYSC Trust Fund on its final stage of passing into law in the House of Representatives is meant to address Inclusive Growth in Nigeria and this was well canvassed during the public hearing on the Bill which was held on Thursday, February 24, 2021.

At the said public hearing on the National Youth Service Corps Trust Fund bill, the Director-General of NYSC, Major-General Shuaibu Ibrahim informed the nation that the Bill sought to address the infrastructural deficit in the orientation camps, ensure adequate provision of other operational logistics, as well as address the problem of graduate unemployment in the country.