The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied rumours that it had concluded plans to divert the April and May monthly stipends of Corps members to the fight against COVID-19.
The rebuttal came over the weekend via a statement signed by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenaike Adeyemi. She asked Corps members to disregard a purported directive said to have been issued by the Director-General, conveying to them that their monthly stipends for April and May would be contributed to the fight against COVID-19.
The NYSC leadership noted that a similar story had earlier been bandied on the social media in February, 2020. It denied the story saying, “there is no iota of truth in it.”
The statement read in part:
“It is important to note that payment of monthly stipend for the month of April shall be effected without the usual gathering for Clearance, in keeping with the rule of social distancing.
“It is equally imperative to add that there shall not be clearance for the month of May, 2020. The system shall generate automatic clearance for everyone.
“Special commendation once again goes to Corps Medical Personnel working tirelessly with medical teams across the country to save lives; and Corps Engineers that fabricated pedal-operated machine dispensing sanitiser, water and soap.”
