NIGERIA- A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Governing Board, Tijani Adekanbi, has revealed that the body has ruled out military training for corps members because the armed forcec would not be able to accommodate them after the training.

He said at Minna, the Niger State capital, Nigeria, when he paid a courtesy visit to the state’s acting governor, Musa Ibeto, saying the scheme is also working out measures to check the increasing rate of the forgery of its certificate.

It would be recalled that after the 2011 post electoral violence which claimed the lives of some corps members in some states, people advocated military training for corps members to enable them grapple with the security challenges which could confront them.

He said: “If we give them one year military training we have to absorb them into any of the services. If they are allowed to be on their own after the training it will be dangerous for the country.”

Mr. Adekanbi also said the scheme will encourage corps members to dissociate from embarking on over-ambitious Community Development programmes.

He also warned people of influence who always discourage their wards from undergoing the compulsory one year scheme, saying they were merely subjecting them to risk in the future. He said those who skip the service would not be eligible to get involved with the trend of development in the country without their NYSC discharge certificate.

Responding, Mr. Ibeto said the NYSC scheme had assisted the state in the implementation of its education and health programmes in the area of the provision of qualified manpower.

The deputy governor said the scheme made Nigerians, particularly the youth, to know more about different parts of the country.