The calls by some for the discontinuation of the mandatory twelve months national service finds basis in the fact of the exposure to undue hardship, risks to lives, and a 'waste' of a whole year doing next to nothing in the name of serving one's father land.
The image attached to this post mirrors one of such. It is a picture from the camp of the National Youth Service Corps in Plateau state. Here Nigerian graduates are compelled to sit on bare grounds in open fields awaiting the screening of their call-up letters and statement of results. Worst treatments play out in the distribution of outfits and foods to eat.
Indeed this kind of treatment mirrors the hardships that many of these young men and women would be confronted with in the larger society after their service year.
Can't the authorities afford these graduate some decent treatment? Why such humiliation and reduction to nothingness in the name of national service?
Too many questions; too many heartbreaks!
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