Ondo State coordinator, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani, has charged corps members not to violate the rules of the scheme.
Ani gave the charge during her lecture on NYSC Act to the 2021 Batch ‘C’ (Stream 1) corps members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko.
She said that the members of the service corps should as a matter of obligation read deeply and digest properly the contents of the publications such as NYSC Act and NYSC Bye Laws.
“Gentlemen corps members, ignorance is not an excuse in a law court. NYSC engaged the services of professionally competent and academically sound experts in relative fields to produce those handbooks and it is imperative for you to take the contents seriously as NYSC will not hesitate to wield big sticks against those who are found wanting.
“It is often said that if you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a publishable form but I want to disagree with the unfounded and unsubstantiated statement because I know that Nigerians are widely known to be bookworm,” she said.
“You cannot be where you are today if your academic exercise has defects and my appeal to you is that if you want a trouble-free and successful service year, you must align wholly and submit yourself totally to all the contents contained therein.”
She spoke specifically on the responsibilities and what is expected of members of the service corps to their employers as well as the expectations of their various host communities during the service year.
The NYSC boss explained several portions of the NYSC Act and admonished the corps members not to see the publication as mere academic exercise.
The coordinator who was represented by the Assistant Director/Head, Corps Discipline and Reward, Mrs. Adejoke Fashola, charged the corps members to go back to the culture of reading.
“Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) has made accessing information easier and this has turned the world into a global village but my candid advice to you all is that you should go back to the basics and re-invent your reading culture,” she concluded.
