Director General of the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Wednesday, disclosed that the scheme would soon conduct its orientation course for prospective corps members on a quarterly basis.
He made this known in Asaba, Delta State, during the opening ceremony of the 2016 annual management conference of the scheme. In his speech, he said this help to limit the increasing number of graduates being turned out by accredited institutions for the scheme.
He noted that the provision of NYSC permanent orientation camp was a statutory responsibility of state governments and part of their contributions to human capital and youth development, urging the states without permanent orientation camps to fast track action to get one as this will address some of the challenges confronting the scheme to enable it to achieve the desired objectives.
He identified some of the challenges faced by the scheme as a sudden increase in corps population with an accompanying decrease in the budgetary allocation and rejection of corps members. Olawunmi, however, expressed appreciation to the Delta State Government for its consistent support for the scheme over the years.
He said, “While the scheme appreciates the consistent co-operation of corps employers over the years, it further appeals that rather than reject corps members who actually are on national assignment, a budgetary provision should be made for them at the beginning of every year by both public and private organisations in the country.
“Last year, the scheme through the NYSC Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers, HIRD, lunched a holistic medical outreach targeted at the rural poor. The programme which is designed to take the primary healthcare delivery in Nigeria to a higher level will be sustained in view of the recent outbreak of Lassa fever disease in 17 states of the federation because of the wide spread of corps members in the 774 local governments in the country,” he noted.
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