The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has unified all the parts of the country through cultural integration of participants of the scheme which was the original idea of the founding fathers of the programme, Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG), Chief Patrick Ukah, has said.
Chief Ukah, stated this on Friday July 23rd 2021, when he received the new NYSC State Coordinator, Mr. Alao Olusegun, and his team in his office in Asaba.
The SSG, who doubles as the Chairman of the state NYSC Governing Board, said that the importance of the scheme cannot be overemphasized just as the government pledged its willingness to continue to support the scheme in the state in order to ensure the objectives for which it was established is achieved.
Chief Ukah assured the NYSC officials that the state government would ensure that Corps members posted to the state to serve would be well catered for and added that the state government had provided a lot of facilities for the NYSC office located in Asaba and also at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku.
He charged the NYSC officials to synergize with the Ministry of Education in order to harness the potentials of Corps members who would be of great benefit to the state in terms of teaching in schools.
The SSG stated that Corps members can undergo crash programmes while in the Orientation Camp that would enable them undertake the task of teaching in schools which would be of benefit to them, the students and the state.
Earlier in his speech, Mr. Olusegun commended the state government for its support towards the scheme.
He said the state Secretariat of NYSC was quite appreciative of the state government’s swift intervention efforts in providing temporary office accommodation for them after the recent fire incidence that gutted some parts of their offices in the Federal Secretariat.
Mr. Olusegun also noted that the state Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku is one of the best in the country and this was as a result of the state government’s commitment to the welfare of Corps members in the state.
