No fewer than three members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, are to repeat service yr and three others have their service intervals prolonged for abscondment and misconduct.
The NYSC State Coordinator, Usman Yakubu-Yaro, disclosed this on the passing out parade of the 2022 Batch ‘C’ Stream 1 corps members on Thursday on the Wamakko everlasting orientation camp.
Mr Yakubu-Yaro maintained that NYSC iwas a scheme of reward and punishment, stressing that the scheme had zero-tolerance for truancy, and wouldn’t hesitate to punish any erring corps member.
He said that out of 527 corps members who handed out, a female and male have been shortlisted for the ‘Sultan of Sokoto Meritorious Award’ for his or her excellent contributions to the event of the state throughout their service yr.
Mr Yakubu-Yro additional mentioned that the scheme posted a excessive variety of corps members to colleges to educate in addition to medical personnel to the agricultural areas the place they had been largely wanted.
The coordinator urged the outgoing corps members to be good ambassadors of the scheme wherever they discovered themselves.
He suggested them to maximally utilise the acquire of the abilities acquired throughout the service yr, stressing that white-collar jobs weren’t simple to discover lately.
Mr Yakubu-Yaro enjoined them not to undertake night time journeys because it was at all times harmful to achieve this.
He mentioned, ”If night time meets them in the method of their journey they need to search for navy barracks or the closest police station to keep earlier than persevering with the journey again to their respective communities.”
The NYSC boss thanked Gov. Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State for sustaining the corps members’ month-to-month allowance, which he mentioned had helped a lot of them..
He additionally thanked the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’advert Abubakar, for his benevolence, saying, ” he has been giving awards to the 2 finest corps members of each batch.”
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