Without corps members, education, health sectors will be in jeopardy -NYSC DG

From Sola Ojo, Kaduna

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim in Kaduna on Friday reiterated the importance of corps members in national unity, cohesion and economy when he said without them education and health sectors would have been in jeopardy.

He stated this while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after officially inaugurating the scheme’s first mega printing press in Kaduna. He also used the opportunity to call on Nigerians to support the call for the establishment of the NYSC Trust Fund to enable the scheme train and give corps members start-up capital at the end of their national service.

According to him, NYSC has established several ventures including garment factories, water factories, then the printing press. “Whatever we realise will be remitted to the federal purse because apart from national unity and integration, we are to also contribute to the national economy where these ventures come handy,” he said.

He noted that the initiation and completion of the project illustrate the management’s commitment to the functionality of the six mega printing presses, one for each of the country’s geo-political zones as approved by the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.  “The significance of the printing press lies in its potential as a contributor to our efforts towards re-invigorating the NYSC ventures, which is one of the cardinal points of my administration’s policy thrust.

“That was why we are appealing to Nigerians to support the establishment of the NYSC Trust Fund, which would apart from enhancing our performance at the scheme, corps members would be adequately trained in various skills so, at the end of the service year, they get start-up capital to establish their businesses. With their generation being digital, they will take millions of Nigerians out of unemployment if this opportunity is granted.”