NABCO: 90,000 Applicants Accept Placements

The Ministry of Information has revealed that 90,000 applicants of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) Programme have accepted their placement in all seven modules of the programme across the country.

The placed applicants, the Ministry said have subsequently submitted their letters of acceptance.

A post by the Ministry of Information on Twitter added that in all 100,000 graduates are expected to be enrolled onto the programme for the first year and will be on the programme for three years.

 According to the CEO of NABCO,  Dr Ibrahim Anyars the placements delayed because his outfit had to verify the qualifications of applicants before placing them.

 "I believe that whoever has followed what is happening in the process would realise that was one of the stages during the selection", Dr Anyars said in an interview.

 "...of course we had to queue considering the numbers that we contend with... To select 100,000 out of 130,000 qualified people after the interviews is quiet a task and so we went through two batches of placement.

 "The first batch were those that went through before the 31st of August and the rest of them were on pending because we were still verifying their National Service credentials, verifying their qualifications from their various institutions.