The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Ondo State Coordinator, Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani, has challenged the graduate youths mobilised and deployed for national service to imbibe a sense of responsibly during and after the service year.
The coordinator gave the challenge while briefing the prospective corps members deployed to Ondo at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp Ikare-Akoko.
Ani declared that the youths should position themselves for more sensitive roles in the country as the new government in power had ceded more responsibility to the youths.
“It is no longer news that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR recently inaugurated a Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms which included one Miss Orire Agbaje, a 400 level Economics student of the University of Ibadan. This magnanimity of Mr. President underscores the premium the Federal Government places on the youths”.
The NYSC boss said that that was the right time for the youths to shed the toga of complacency and embrace more roles in nation-building.
“As an enterprising youths with much vigour, carriage and candour, you have been called upon to give selfless service to the county and this is why Nigerians from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds are bonded together to rub minds with the sole aim of finding lasting solutions to the myriads of challenges dragging the country”.
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Ani appealled to the prospective corps members to have a personal conviction that if foremost nationalists such as Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, all of blessed memory and the living legend, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) could give their best to the nation at their prime, prospective corps members should brace up to the challenges ahead and etch their names in gold as icons and role models of present times.
“The history of this great country would be incomplete without highlighting the patriotism the aforementioned nationalists rendered to make Nigeria a great country and such privilege is now bestowed upon you to announce to the world that you would succeed with the conducive atmosphere created right from the national level to grassroot levels,” she affirmed.
“NYSC is known for raising disciplined youths that will make Nigeria proud anywhere they found themselves and I want to let you know that the management will not relent at ensuring that the objectives of the noble scheme are achieved through you so that your meaningful contributions to national development is not in any way compromised,” she stated.
Ani warned them that she would not hesitate to wield the big stick against anyone caught flouting any of the laid down rules and regulations guiding the conduct of corps members in the orientation camp.
The state coordinator during the briefing exercise inaugurated the Camp Court with a charge that they should perform their duties without let or hindrance.
“I want to charge the Camp Court Committee not to use the medium to intimidate or harass prospective corps members but rather operate within the context of its mandate. In addition, the members of the service corps should work within the provision of the law as anything contrary will make the committee invoke the provisions of the NYSC bye-law on recalcitrant corps members,” she concluded.
