(Photos) Corps Members Protest Rigorous Screening Process in Kubwa, Abuja

National Youth Service Corps, NYSC members serving in FCT on Friday disrupted the monthly screening exercise that took place in Kubwa by staging a protest.

The disgruntled Corps members claimed that the process was unnecessarily tedious and that NYSC lacked the infrastructure to handle it....

The Corps members, who rallied in and around the Orientation Camp, the venue of the screening, halted traffic for almost 20 minutes.

An aggrieved Corp member, Bon Collins, who spoke to Trezzy Blog said the process required NYSC taking their biometrics and there are neither enough computers nor Internet to carry it out.

"Can you imagine? Three systems to screen over a thousand people. Barely hundred have been able to do today and it's already two o'clock," he said.

Investigation by Trezzy Blog revealed that the taking of biometrics as a requirement for monthly clearance started last month and was only moved to Kubwa this month.

"First, they make the process tedious. Then they moved it to Kubwa. Before, it was split into groups. People cleared in their zonal offices. Area 10, Zone 3 and Zone 5. Now they move all of us to Kubwa," another Corp member, Mayowa lamented.

The conveners of the protest vowed to take it to the NYSC Headquarters at Maitama.

The NYSC has continued to bring up various measures to curb the abuse of the service by corps members, but have failed to make the system more efficient.