NIGERIAN singer, actor, and politician, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W has stated that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) should be optional.
Banky W stated this, during an interview with Channels television.
He maintained that despite its existence, the NYSC program has not been successful in achieving all of its goals.
“I don’t know if there is anybody that will disagree that NYSC, today, probably does not achieve everything it was originally designed for so how do we reform it, don’t cancel it, can we say maybe instead of being a mandatory program, let’s excite it from the constitution and make it optional, and then if that’s the case, the people who don’t need it will go.
“Now the people who are remaining, you can pay them more so instead of paying them thirty thousand naira a month which does nothing, for a young person. In today’s Nigeria, we can pay them 60 or 70 or 80k,” he said.
Recall that in 2018, Wellington made public his plans to run for the Lagos Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in Nigeria’s House of Representatives under the Modern Democratic Party (MDP) platform which was founded in 2017. Sadly, Babajide Obanikoro of the All Progressive Congress defeated him in the election.
The singer-turned-politician is currently campaigning for the same seat under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 election.
