By Miriam Humbe
Corps Members have been advised to serve as positive agents of development that would bring succour to their host communities.
Caroline Embu, the NYSC’s Acting Director, Information and Public Relations disclosed this in a statement signed on Saturday.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed said this to Corps Members at the Anambra State Orientation Camp, Mbaukwu, and Ebonyi State Orientation Camp in Afikpo.
He urged them to study the needs of their host communities, seek for support from the residents and initiate laudable projects that would improve the standards of living of their hosts.
The Director General also warned them against embarking on unauthorized and night journeys.
He said that they should obtain permission from the NYSC and their employers when it becomes mandatory for them to travel.
The NYSC Boss said: “Avoid night travelling because of its dangers. Don’t board vehicles by the roadside and ensure you go to designated motor parks to board vehicles while travelling”.
General Ahmed further told the Corps Members to make long-lasting friends and relationships during the service year.
He said that they should strive to bond together and foster national unity and integration, the reason for which the NYSC was founded.
He encouraged them to use the service year to plan for a better future and avoid every form of social delinquencies that could jeopardize their future.
While presenting the camp situation report to the Director General, the Anambra State Coordinator, Mrs Blessing Ekene Iruma said that all the 1,011 Corps Members comprising 412 males and 599 females had voluntarily joined the various camp committees and were participating actively in the day-to-day running of the camp.
Similarly, her Ebonyi State counterpart, Mrs Foluke Oladehinde informed General Ahmed that 535 males and 581 females took the Oath of Allegiance as administered by Hon. Justice Nicholas Nwode on behalf of the State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Elvis Ngene.
Oladehinde said: “All the Corps Members are well behaved and have adapted to the regimented life in camp”.
