The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has introduced biometric clearance for corp members in the South West. This was disclosed at a training workshop, held in Ibadan, themed ‘Ensuring Accountability in Corps Members Activities Using ICT’ on the 2nd of March 2017.
According to the Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier-General Sule Kazaure, the introduction of the biometric clearance is in a bid to monitor corps members and eradicate payment of allowances to ghost corps members.
The biometric clearance was initially scheduled to kick-off in September, 2015, for Lagos and Abuja, and extend to other geo-political zones in 2016.
The Biometric clearance will enable accountability and curb corruption to an extent, by reducing the rate at which NYSC workers and corps members connive to defraud the system.
It also ensures security and safety by discouraging frequent travelling by corps members during their NYSC year, which sometimes are unnecessary and often lead to accidents.
