By Ojo Sola Olusegun
Kaduna
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned prospective youth corp members and that currently undergoing orientation exercise, to take information given to them by camp authority seriously, as the scheme would not forgive or spare any mistake arising from indiscipline and negligence on the part of corps members.
Kaduna state Coordinator of NYSC, Mr. Hilary Nasamu, who revealed this in an interview with Blueprint yesterday in Kaduna, said the Scheme had never wavered in admonishing corps members to be of good behaviour and to do everything that camp authority required them to do, so that they can be well orientated and imbibe with discipline before leaving the camp.
Nasamu added that without discipline, without orientation in the proper sense of the word, there can never be successful service.
“All those you hear given extension of service, or remobilized for either absenteeism, or abscondment is those who did not do the orientation from the beginning.
“So, they do trial and error in each step they go and make several mistakes, which of course, in NYSC, is unforgiveable. We don’t forgive mistakes. That is why we always talking to them every day and warn them to keep hearing and apply the message that discipline is the watchword and at the end of the day, with discipline, you can go places.”
The coordinator added that the orientation “has now gone beyond the traditional orientation of corps members about the spirit of patriotism, nationalism, unity and integration as well as discipline.
“We are now re-emphasising on skills acquisition and entrepreneurial development. The secretariat in Kaduna is also expanding the provision of training of corps members. We have now laid the foundation of the poultry that we are building for skill acquisition in animal husbandry and poultry farming in addition to the one we commissioned before. So, that area has now begun to expand as we bring in more and more corps members in, to prepare them for life after service.”
On Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), he said corps members had been given the opportunity to be trained as volunteers for the prevention and contingency arrangement for Ebola, adding that the state secretariat was prepared in joining forces with the health workers in the country to ensure that no major illness take hold.
