Nigeria is better appreciated with its component units coming together as one indivisible entity.
The Ondo State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mrs. Victoria Ani, made this assertion when she spoke on the overview of the NYSC to inducted corps members at the Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko.
According to her, since its establishment, 48 years ago, the scheme had been doing much to make all the various ethnic groups and tribes one indivisible entity.
She said that the principal purpose of the scheme was to inculcate in the Nigerian youth the spirit of selfless service to the nation and to emphasise the spirit of oneness and brotherhood of all Nigerians irrespective of cultural, social background and to promote national unity and development.
Her words: “The National Youth Service Corps scheme was established as a deliberate public policy to ensure the realisation of the Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction introduced by the Federal Government under General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) after the civil war under the NYSC Act CAP N84, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.
“The scheme aimed to raise a new crop of disciplined and detribalised Nigerians by allowing the youths to undergo a national service in states other than their own for the purpose of national development and integration.”
The state coordinator encouraged the corps members to participate fully in the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development SAED programme established by the NYSC management to fight unemployment which corps members face after the service year.
During the flag off of lecture series, she inaugurated the COVID -19 Enforcement Vanguard and charged them to work assiduously for the promotion of personal hygiene.
“I charge you to deliver on the mandate put upon your shoulders by constantly reminding and encouraging your colleagues and the entire camp community to observe the protocol of COVID -19 so that the war against the virus would be over soon than anticipated.”
A minute silence was observed for the departed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru and others who lost their lives in the military aircraft that crashed on Friday.
Ani while praying for the souls of the departed and fortitude by their respective families to bear the pains of the irreparable loss, prayed for peace in Nigeria.
