Kabba
Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state for their national service have been advised to be steadfast, innovative and hardworking, to become better and self reliant at the end of their service year.
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi gave the advice on Thursday at the swearing-in ceremony of the ‘2020 Batch A Stream l’ corps members deployed to the state at the NYSC orientation camp, Asaya, Kabba.
He assured the corps members of adequate recognition if they make meaningful contribution to their host communities and by extension, the state.
“This administration rewarded five Corps members with State Honours Award as a result of their outstanding performances during the service year.
”I call upon you to follow such footsteps with brighter vision, more innovation and hardwork to win more laurels at the end of the service year,” he said.
Bello urged the corps members to start their “national voyage by respecting the constituted authority in the camp to have adequate orientation for productive service year.”
The governor, who was represented by the state’s Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr Musa Idris, also advised NYSC members to put the nation first in all they would do in their service to the nation and beyond.
He called on the local government authorities to inspire more collaboration with corps members to boost development in health, Infrastructure and community areas to ensure greater grassroots upliftment.
The governor assured the corps members adequate security to increase their devotion to community development programmes and executing infrastructural projects.
He,therefore,urged the security agencies in the camp and in the neighbourhood of the camp to ensure adequate camp security for corps members.
Earlier, Mr Olayiwola Lasaki, the State Coordinator of NYSC, said the scheme remained effective as a strategy for national rehabilitation, reconciliation and re-construction shortly after the Nigerian Civil War.
He noted that the scheme had constantly increased in the mobilisation of corps members from 2,364 population in 1973 to over 300,000 population annually, describing the scheme as most enduring Youth Organisation in Nigeria .
Lasaki lauded the new corps members for exibiting discipline in the camp, and urged them to continue in such tempo throughout.
He commended Gov. Yahaya Bello’s administration for providing the NYSC Secretariat, Lokoja with a Hilux Utility van, which had enabled regular corps inspection assignment.
The state coordinator thanked the governor for the ongoing renovation projects at the camp, while appealing for timely completion of the project.
He expressed optimism that the project would be done as soon as possible.
“We shall continue to support this administration with prayers, even as we carry out the national mandate on youth engineering,” Lasaki said.
The Kogi Chief Judge, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, represented by Justice Samuel Obayomi, administered Oath of Allegiance on 1,900 corps members.
