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Most state governments have suspended
the monthly allowances being paid to members of the National Youth
Service Corps due to the economic crunch affecting the country.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that some
of the states stopped paying the allowances more than one year ago.
Before the economic downturn, most states of the federation were paying
stipends to the NYSC members deployed in their areas of jurisdiction in
order to augment the N19, 800 the Federal Government was giving to the
corps members.
But as the reality of the economic downturn is biting harder, some states suspended payment of the stipends, thereby
leaving the corps members to depend solely on the N19,800 the Federal
Government is paying to them. This has forced the corps members to
lament.
The situation is more pronounced in
Kwara State, where the government has not paid corps members serving in
the state for more than two years now.
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