Feeding Allowance Of Nigerian Prisoners More Than That Of Graduates Serving Nation — NYSC DG cries out

The Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps has voiced out that the inmates feed better than Corp members.

The DG, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this while appearing before the House Committee on Youth Development for budget defence on Wednesday, 3rd, November.

He mentioned that corps members were served a meal worth N650 per day.

This is coming after the Senate Committee on Interior had increased the daily feeding allowance of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS from its current N450 per day to a minimum of N1,000 per perspn. This increment was done earlier on the 27th of October.

The proposal for increment of the daily feeding allowance of the inmates was done by officials of the Nigeria Correction Services when they came to the Senate to defend the 2022 budget of the Service. The proposed amount was N750.

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The committee had however, described the amount as grossly inadequate and increased it while considering the current economic realities. They as well pledged to undertake an upward review of inmates’ feeding cost from N450 to N1000 per day.

The DG of NYSC , has however, urged the House of Representatives to do same as done to NCS by increasing the allocation for feeding for the NYSC in 2022 budget.

“The only thing that I will tell you here is that sometimes last year, I promised the committee at the NYSC, we are putting on our thinking cap, that I don’t want us to always go cap in hand begging for funds so that, at least, we should do something to bring revenue to the table. This I did last year and we generated over N280m which we paid into the Federation Account. The DG said

He added that :“Our challenge is in the area of feeding. The budgetary approval for feeding per corps member is N650, which is grossly inadequate. By the time you divide it by three meals (per day), that is N216 per meal. So, we are appealing to this committee to please help us out.

“Even recently, at the Ministry of Interior, the feeding of prisoners was increased to N1,000. So, if we can feed criminals with N1,000, our graduates are putting their lives in the service of our country…I pray that this committee should please do something about it.”.

Who do you think deserve more, NYSC or the NCS.