N4, 000 Call-up Fee: NYSC Says Service Optional

Following the controversy over the introduction of the N4,000 to be paid by prospective corps members for printing of call-up letters on-line including services and infrastructure to be deployed by the collaborating firm, the NYSC has stated that the service is optional and not compulsory on prospective corps members.

Speaking at a press briefing yesterday, the director of corps mobilisation of the scheme, Antony Ani stated that the services which include receipt of call-up numbers through email/sms, printing or re-printing of call-up letters online in case of loss, explained that prospective corps members who choose to collect their call-up letters from their institutions need not pay the stipulated fee.

Ani added that apart form the ease of the collection of call-up letters, the services will help eliminate irregularities which include the mobilisation of unqualified, lack of proper record of those mobilised, tedious process on registration in camps and service evasion by corps members.

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