The Management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Monday, April 11, expressed regret over the delay in the payment of March 2016 allowances of Corps members.
According to a statement posted on its Facebook page, NYSC said that its management “is actively liaising with the Federal Ministry of Finance to ensure that money is released for disbursement to the Corps members through the usual Central Bank platform.”
“In the same vein, out-going 2015 Batch ‘A’ Streams 1 and 2 Corps members are reassured that their April allowance (2 months for Stream 2) will be duly paid as soon as fund is released from the Federal Ministry of Finance.
“We hereby urge all Corps members to remain calm and go about their lawful duties peacefully,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. J.B. Olawumi, has appealed to Corp members to bear with the agency.
His message, on Tuesday, April 12, read:
My dear Corps members, l sincerely regret the late payment of your March allowance.
For avoidance of doubt, your allowances do not come to the NYSC as the scheme has no account.
Once it is approved by the Federal Ministry of Finance, it goes to the Central Bank account from where it is disbursed directly to Corps members account.
It is the beauty of the Treasury Single Account and that explains why you get the whole allowance in full without any charges.
As at now, we are liaising vigorously with the Ministry so that fund is released to the CBN GIFMIS account and once it is done, it takes us just minutes through the online platform to remit straight to all the 244,532 Corps members in service.
We are equally mounting pressure on the Ministry to ensure that the April allowance for 2015 Batch A and the outstanding one month allowance for Stream 2, Batch A 2015 is also paid as quickly as possible.
It has become necessary to explain this so as to clear the erroneous believe that the Scheme is holding Corps members allowance.
Please just exercise patience as this will be resolved in a couple of days.
God bless you my children!
Brig Gen Olawumi
DG NYSC
Please pay allowee ooo.
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