NYSC: Why reform committee jettisoned proposal to make service optional – Joe Abah

A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Reform Committee, Dr. Joe Abah, has explained why the panel rejected proposals to make national service optional and to introduce mandatory full military training for all corps members.
Abah’s clarification came after a critic, Muyiwa Saka, accused the committee of dismissing the idea of an optional scheme.
Saka wrote on X: “My main clue that Dr Joe got that reform madly wrong was that retort about zero possibility of national service being optional… The refusal to explore that option just suggested it as an academic effort that satisfied everyone except the corpers involved.”
Responding, Abah said the committee did consider the op...