National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the Introduction of anti-corruption and indiscipline Biometric device that would be used to monitor the activities of corps members during their service year.
Speaking at the launching of the device in Kuje area council of the Federal Capital territory, Abuja, the Director General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, said the device will check the corrupt practices and indiscipline as well as ensure the security of corps members.
General Olawumi said that the device has a way of detecting staff who connived with corps members to engage in corrupt practices, adding that such staff under the new system would lose their jobs.
He added that the system will also ensure accountability and transparency in the management of the NYSC scheme.
According to the Director General, it has been discovered that a lot of corps members have been in the habit of absconding from their states or places of primary assignment, hence the need for the biometric device to curb such acts.
Olawumi said that the device would also address the resort to irregular signatures by the operatives of the NYSC which usually lead to non-payment of the monthly allowances, absenteeism and poor collation and storage of data amongst other challenges.
The Director General stressed that corps members now have to be present during their monthly clearance to be captured in the exercise.
According to him, the platform will be put to use from this month, September, in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Lagos State respectively.
This was even as the Director, Corps Welfare and Inspectorate, Mr. Michael Ahile has blamed the challenges of monitoring corps members on the increasing number of prospective participants in the scheme.
He said that the biometric device will be used to monitor submission of monthly clearance, Community Development Services (CDS) attendance among other activities. [myad]
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