Notwithstanding the good intentions of the national service program, insofar as organization is concerned, it is such a crock of the brown stuff. Why? Students, I am told, have to endure the worst kind of the typical third world organizational inefficiency at the NSS as they wade through the limbo of not knowing where they will be posted and if their budding skill-sets fit the posting at all. Worse, whether you are the product of a government subsidized education or have laboured your way through private school because your sponsor could afford it, all MUST give one year of their lives to the service. There is no logical structure or machinery that profiles students in a way to benefit both country and young citizen, the former getting the right people in the right place, while the later gets the opportunity to nurture the budding skills and/or talents within the right environment - let alone to talk about students giving their time commensurate to how much they benefited, or not, from government scholarship.
I therefore have no regrets whatsoever, for dodging the effing draft way back in 1989. I am not ashamed in any manner whatsoever, because I know I have served my country irrespective since then. And as for our national service scheme, me thinks what we really need is a revolution. One of those Cuban-style radical approachs where all students go to the sugar plantations for three months. This way we can, at the very least, turn the otherwise wasted expanses of arable land to good use.
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way to go basmas! day to day the direction of our lives is decided by people with little or no clue as to what it entails to execute the jobs entrusted to them.
ReplyDeleteBut then again we see this everywhere,people in positions that makes no sense even to them,how can we then build any form of expectation? You see the trail am creating,just about everything they dish out is seen as Godsend and grabed with such ......oh basmas .................