Parents of corps members deployed to Ondo State and their colleagues dislodged from Lagos State have been assured of adequate security for their children and wards.
The Ondo State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani, gave the assurance during the low key swearing in ceremony where she declared open the orientation course for 2021 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) service year.
“I wish to assure the parents and guardians of the corps members that there is no cause for alarm as the scheme remains alive to its core responsibility of adequately catering for the security and welfare of corps members,” she said.
The coordinator advised corps members to take their personal security seriously and with unflinching sensitivity.
“The security situation in our darling nation is of grave concern to all of us who believed in the project called Nigeria and I want to admonish you to protect your lives first and above all other considerations”.
She disclosed that shortly after she returned from the a pre-orientation workshop held in Nasarawa State, she visited all the security chiefs and uniform agencies and they all assured her of adequate protection and safety for corps members serving or deployed to the state.
She appealed to corps members to face the business they had come to do during the service year and live a decent life devoid of ostentatious exposures which might expose them to security threat.
She promised to continue to liaise with security chiefs from time to time so that security architecture and network apparatus put in place remained dynamic and rigid.
Ani expressed appreciation to the governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for his supportive roles for the NYSC in the state.
The Chief Judge of Ondo State who was represented by the Justice Oluwafeyisayo Kuteyi, administered the Oath of Allegiance on 1072 prospective corps members deployed to the state and the 212 dislodged from Lagos State.
