A MANDATORY boot camp-type National Youth Service (NYS) programme could be on the cards after Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Stephen Lashley reopened the discussion yesterday.
Speaking to a gathering of schoolchildren at his ministry’s open day at Sky Mall as part of National Youth Week, Lashley called on the entire country to help transform the lives of its young people.
And while he announced the launching of a voluntary national youth service programme that could do this, he put the notion of a mandatory service back in focus.
“I believe the discussion should continue. I feel we should strengthen our National Youth Service residential phase programme in which our young people are in a kind of a boot camp environment for at least three months every year,” he said while delivering the feature address. (AD)
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