The National Youths Service Corps says it is intensifying efforts to establish a Trust Fund. The fund would be used to provide start-up capital for the corps members after their service years.
The scheme also said that it is working to get a rebate on flight charges for corps members. This, the service says, is to enable them to embark on safer journeys during their service years.
Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, its Director-General, said this on Monday in Abuja, during his nationwide virtual address to 2021, Batch ‘B’, Stream II, set of corps members.
The corps members are set to end the NYSC orientation course on September 21, and immediately commence their one-year mandatory national assignment.
They would be deployed to different institutions, organisations and other corps employers, both in the public and private sectors for their primary assignments.
This was contained in a statement issued shortly after the address by Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations Unit of the scheme.
The Director-General reiterated the need for the corps members to always seek permission before travelling out of their states of postings as it would enable the NYSC state secretariats where the corps members are serving to keep track of their movements, ensuring their safety at all times. He further admonished the corps to always seek permission before travelling via writing through their employers, to their local government inspector which will finally get to the state coordinator for approval.
The Director-General further assured the corps members that the scheme is working assiduously to enlist all of them into the National Health Insurance Scheme, for effective medicare as directed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
He advised corps members to ensure that they get the COVID-19 vaccines, to protect themselves and others from the virus.
Ibrahim also said that corps members found culpable of requesting rejections from their employers for ‘greener pastures of postings’ would be punished according to the NYSC bye-laws.
The Director-General urged corps members to be patriotic in the service to their fatherland and ensure that they add value to themselves, the NYSC and society and
warned corps members against the negative use of social media, urging them to always verify any information before sharing it online.
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