The State Director of Security, Department of State Services, Ondo State Command, Mr. Tunde Adefolurin, has urged the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Ondo State to leverage the relationship with his department to combat youth restiveness.
According to the security chief, his command is ever ready to tackle headlong, the challenges associated with youthful exuberance by engaging in dialogue and programmes aimed at maximising the potentials of graduate youth during service year.
Adefolurin made this commitment when he hosted the NYSC Ondo State Coordinator, Mrs. Kuburat Omowumi Bakare, in his office.
The DSS boss in the Sunshine State affirmed the commitment of his command towards the safety of corps members.
He stated that the security apparatus of all the security agencies had made peaceful co-existence in the state a priority and non-negotiable.
The State Director of Security observed that the incessant and increase in requests for relocation could be traced to security challenges in the country, but added that they were not resting on their oars but instead, continuously fashion out ways to overcome the challenges.
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Speaking on the importance of the collaboration between the DSS and NYSC, the security expert said that the union would guarantee a strong and virile country, as the youths were regarded as nation builders.
He disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision, as well as the mandate of the Director General of the Department of State Services, was to ensure that youths, irrespective of their backgrounds were protected in all the nooks and crannies of the country.
In her speech, the State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, Mrs. Kuburat Omowumi Bakare, appreciated the DSS for deploying well-grounded professionals to serve as undercover agents during the orientation courses.
Bakare said that the invaluable services rendered by the undercover assisted greatly to render prompt service to the entire camp community, which ordinarily would have generated apprehension and breach in security.
The NYSC Ondo State boss, while seeking stronger ties between the two federal government agencies, appealed for more surveillance at Corps lodges and other residential buildings occupied by members of the service corps.
