The management of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Ondo State has concluded arrangement to host 2,200 prospective corps members deployed to the state for the 2020 Batch ‘A’ service year.
In a press statement made available to journalists, the state coordinator, Mrs. Grace Akpabio, said that the secretariat had complied with health safety measures approved during a pre-orientation workshop.
According to her, the managers of the scheme in the Ondo State had placed hand sanitizers and washing basins in all strategic places within the camp.
Akpabio advised the prospective corps members to take advantage of medical provisions which the secretariat had put in place to fortify themselves.
“We do not have immunity against diseases or illnesses but I want to assure the prospective corps members posted to Ondo State that we have done all what is humanly possible to prevent any outbreak of diseases in our camp. We have enough hand gloves and face masks to go round all the participants.
“Some of the lasting measures put in place are thorough clearing and cleaning of the whole land mass on which the camp is situated. We have equally replaced nets of all doors and windows which nets were torn by previous participants. We do not stop at that, all ceiling fans have been serviced and they are working perfectly,” she said.
The NYSC boss allayed the fears of parents as she said that ‘our mandate is to protect all participants and as parents, we shall stop at nothing to ensure that the prospective corps members have the best camping experience ever’.
The state coordinator appealed to all security agencies to intensify monitoring and surveillance of all the routes leading to the camp to forestall any untoward happenings.
She equally appealed to the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and Road Transport Employee Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, not to exploit the visitors majority of who are coming to the state for the first time.
The Area Coordinator Southwest Zone, Mr. Emmanuel Danjuma Attah, visited the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko, to monitor the level of compliance of the policy directive and expressed satisfaction on what he met on ground.
The 2020 Batch ‘A’ (Stream 1) breaks on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
