NYSC Ondo State Coordinator, Mrs Victoria Nnenna Ani has challenged the graduate youths mobilised and deployed for national service to be selfless like nationalists such as Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, among others, during and after the service year.
According to her, if the aforementioned nationalists could give their best to Nigeria at their prime, prospective corps members should brace up for the challenges ahead and etch their names in gold as icons and role models of present times.
“The history of this great country would be incomplete without highlighting the patriotism the aforementioned nationalists rendered to make Nigeria a great country and such privilege is now bestowed upon you to announce to the world that you would succeed with the conducive atmosphere created right from the national level to grassroot levels,” she affirmed.
The State Coordinator poses this challenge while briefing the prospective corps members deployed to Ondo, the Sunshine State at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp Ikare-Akoko.
Mrs Ani declared that the youths should position themselves for more sensitive roles in the country as the new Government in power has ceded more responsibility to the youths.
“It is no longer news that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR recently inaugurated a Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms which included one Miss Orire Agbaje, a 400 level Economics student of the University of Ibadan. This magnanimity of Mr. President underscores the premium the Federal Government places on the youths”.
The NYSC Ondo boss said that this is the right time for the youths to shed the toga of complacency and embrace more roles in nation-building.
“My dear children in the national service, I need to reiterate that the National Youth Service Corps was established 50 years ago to raise a new crop of disciplined and detribalised Nigerians by allowing youths to undergo national service in states other than their own for the purpose of national development and integration.
“As enterprising youths with much vigour, carriage and candour, you have been called upon to give selfless service to the county and this is why Nigerians from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds are bonded together to rub minds with the sole aim of finding lasting solutions to the myriads of challenges dragging the country.”
The Ondo Coordinator also advised the NYSC members to shun all vices capable of bringing disrepute to their hard-earned academic achievements.
“NYSC is known for raising disciplined youths that will make Nigeria proud anywhere they found themselves and I want to let you that the management will not relent at ensuring that the objectives of the noble Scheme are achieved through you so that your meaningful contributions to national development is not in any way compromised,” she added.
She warned them that she would not hesitate to wield the big stick against anyone caught flouting any of the laid down rules and regulations guiding the conduct of corps members in the orientation camp.
The State Coordinator during the briefing exercise inaugurated the Camp Court with a charge that they perform their duties effectively.
“I want to charge the Camp Court Committee not to use the medium to intimidate or harass prospective corps members but rather operate within the context of its mandate.
“In addition, the members of the service corps should work within the provision of the law as anything contrary will make the Committee invoke the provisions of the NYSC Bye-Law on recalcitrant corps members,” she concluded.
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