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By Iheanyi Chukwudi
The Director-General, National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yushau Ahmed, has charged the employers of corps members to make the security of the Corpers posted to their organisations a priority.
Speaking on Thursday during the 2023 corps employers workshop in Enugu with the theme "Enhancing the wellbeing of corps members for optimum productivity," the NYSC DG maintained that particular attention should be paid to the security of the Corpers."
Ahmed, who was represented by Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, NYSC Acting Zonal Coordinator, South East, disclosed that the workshop was aimed at receiving feedback from strategic stakeholders on the strength, weakness and potentials of the scheme, as well as chart ways of strengthening its operations in the post jubilee era.
He said, "We are also expected to review ways of addressing the welfare needs of corps members in their places of primary assignment and deliberate on how to ensure safety of corps members in their places of assignments."
"We are expected to look at the roles of the corps employers in community development service, skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development, security during service and Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers."
Earlier, the NYSC Enugu State Coordinator, Mrs Gladys Adama, said that the theme of this year's workshop was more apt in the present situation, where Nigerians were faced with increased insecurity coupled with the dwindling resources to adequately take care of the ever expanding corps population.
Corroborating the DG, Adama stated that security of corps members was an issue that must always be given adequate attention and
urged the employers not to apply for corps members if they could not provide accommodations for them or give them money in lieu of accommodations.
Speaking on "The role of NYSC and corps employers in impacting the host community through community development service, health initiative for rural dwellers, skill acquisition and entrepreneurship development in the post jubilee era," the Deputy Director Account, NYSC South East, Mrs I Oladipo,
said that community development service programme of the NYSC was one out of the four cardinal programs of the NYSC scheme in which corps members contribute positively to the development of their host community.
Oladipo added that the NYSC skill acquisition and Entrepreneurship development project reached out to all Corps members mobilized for the one year mandatory service to the nation, urging the employers to emphasis more on the welfare of the corps members as well as correct them when they go wrong.
In another presentation, Assistant Director, Operations, NYSC, South East, Mrs Dimma Anyaocha,speaking on "The role of corps employers in ensuring the welfare and security of Corps members," said that the corps employers have a major role to play in the welfare and security of the Corpers
Anyaocha identified notable victories of the employers.
She added that some of them had successfully retrained or employed corps members after their service year, adding that some corps members, with the recommendation from the corps employers had won NYSC awards and even moved on to get jobs in other sectors among others.
Some employers, who participated urged the NYSC to provide accommodations for the corps members in all the Local Government Areas.
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