those who absent themselves from their places of primary assignment.
The Director
General of NYSC, Brig-Gen Suleiman Kazure who stated this in Ibadan at the
opening ceremony of the training workshop on Biometric Clearance of Corps
Members in Local Government Areas in SouthWest with the theme "Ensuring
Accountability in Corps members activities using ICT, said that biometric
technology will not only address absenteeism during service year but will also
address the problems of irregular signatures leading to non-payment of monthly
allowance, and poor collation and storage of data of corps members.
The training
was organised for all heads of corps inspection and monitoring branches, ICT
desk officers, zonal and local government inspectors of the South-West.
Kazure, who
was represented by NYSC Director of Corps Welfare, Mrs Victoria Okakwu said,
"This new process has received great ovation from the public for its
positive impact in areas such as elimination of sharp practices perpetuated by
fraudulent individuals and reduction of errors in our data and workload on our
staffs, corps memners and other stakeholders.
"Furthermore,
the improvement on the new process also brought about the introduction of the
use of biometrics for mobilisation and registration of corps members at
orientation camps which has not only helped in fast tracking the process, but
also reduced impersonation and registration in prozy including ineligible
graduates."
Kazure noted
that the feedback from the North West zone, South East zone and the two pilot
locations of Lagos and Abuja had been very encouraging and positive, adding
that he believed that South West zone will also be successful.
He said the
training was organised to give participants the requisite knowledge in the
IT-based clearance and monitoring of corps members to eliminate the practices
of payment of allowances to corps members who are not on ground to serve their
father land.
The NYSC boss
urged all official of the scheme to shun any act that may be detrimental to the
success of the innovation.
In her speech,
the NYSC Director of ICT, Mrs Christy Uba said the biometric module was
designed to embrace adequate monitoring and monthly clearance of Corps members.
According to
her, it keeps record of absenteeism, checkmates truancy, impersonation and
other vices which tends to undermine the aims and objectives of the scheme.
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