A joint session of the National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) as well as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently sign the Nigerian Peace Corps bill into law.
The two groups came together to make this demand about two weeks after the bill was submitted to President Buhari for h and NANS in Abuja on Thursday, January 11, the youths argued that,
"assenting to the Nigerian Peace Corps bill will be our president's best gift to the Nigerian youths and students.”
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Comrade Murtala Mohammed Garba, the national president of NYCN and Comrade Aruna Kadiri, head of NANS, said job creation and youth empowerment were cardinal parts of President Buhari's campaign promises and that urgent assent to the Peace Corps bill would go a long way to delivering on his promises.
The duo argued that the security agencies in the country were doing their best, but like other developing countries, the place of Nigerian Peace Corps cannot be overemphasized since no existing agency does exactly what the Peace Corps stands for.
“A critical analysis of this all important Bill will clearly reveal that the functions being sought by the Nigerian Peace Corps are akin to that of the American Peace Corps, Canadian Peace Corps, Bangladesh National Cadet Corps, Peace Officers"" Commission in China, Chinese Labour Corps, Lera Uniform Corps of Malaysia, Malaysian People Volunteer Corps and others."
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