Amaechi Complaining Again

Rivers state governor, Governor Chibuike Amaechi has lamented the funding of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC by the Federal Government.

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The governor was speaking when he was paid a courtesy visit by the NYSC governing board in his government house in Port Harcourt.

He urged the fedral government to take responsibility for the NYSC because states are now being made to shoulder responsibilities of the FG.

He said:“I don’t know if you realise that NYSC is a Federal scheme. If you know it’s a federal scheme, why are you transferring responsibility to the State government? Even the allowances we are paying, we are not supposed to pay.
I served in Abuja, nobody paid me one dime outside what the Federal Government paid us as allowance. The vehicles the youth service was using in Abuja were bought by the Federal Government, why then do we transfer Federal Government responsibility to the States?” Amaechi asked.
“We are virtually funding all Federal agencies in the state. If we don’t want NYSC then we should say we don’t want NYSC, but it solves a lot of problems for us and when I say us, I mean the nation, including the fact that it creates temporary employment for corps members for one year.
“But the most important thing is that the Federal Government should stand and take over their responsibilities, because at the end of the day, we would all go to the Federation Account meeting and everybody will take their own share; and then they transfer their responsibility to us. “, he said.
“I am not saying we would not assist NYSC, we have always done that but what I am saying is that most of these responsibilities are Federal Government responsibilities.
So when you finish addressing me, please go and address the Director General of the NYSC board to simply ask the Federal Government to make funds available to you or to the NYSC,” he added.

 

Rotimi Amaechi is the Governor of River State, Nigeria, and has been in a public fued with President Jonathan and the PDP since they had the Governors forum election.

2 COMMENTS

  1. becos is a fed govt scheme they should not come to u..? or becos ur nt paid by state in ur own time they should not come to u…hv u ask urself d allocation giving to state then if is same now … or ur bin sentimental…

  2. Nawao! This man is always ranting and rancorous in all his statements;does it mean federal government should still take over his own state NYCS allowance or that the corp members do not receive their federal allowances? This man in all indication is restive and always tend to incite the uninformed listener of his against the government. Tufiakwa does opposition party mean war to this man for christ sake?