Bayelsa govt buys 4,000 Peace Corps forms for youths

SEQUEL to estimated 4, 000 youths  that would be trained, the Bayelsa State Government has purchased over 4, 000 forms to ensure idle hands are trained in the ongoing Peace Corps enrolment programme in the country.

The State Government spoke through the Commissioner for Youth Development, Hon. Collins Cocodia, who reiterated that forms had been distributed to the eight local government councils, particularly the coastal communities.

He noted that the forms were distributed also at the fishing settlement of Nembe, Brass and Southern Ijaw councils’ areas to ensure that youth in the state enrolled in the security training programme.

Accordingly, he pointed that the gesture was targeted at discouraging youths from going into cultism and other social vices.

Cocodia emphasised that government remain resolute in ensuring zero tolerance for cultism and other social vices in the state.

He submitted that the population of youths that embraced the programme also renounced cultism, adding that where evidence was provided that anyone was still romancing with cultism, he would personally escort such individual to jail.

The commissioner also sent advocacy messages to radio and television stations in the state to educate the youth on criteria for acceptance, such as 1.7 height for female, 1.9 for male, applicant must be flat footed and must be medically fit.