GOVERNOR Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai has promised that his government will build additional blocks of hostels, to accommodate 3,000 more corps members posted to the state.
Represented by Commissioner, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture who doubled as Chairman, NYSC Governing Board in the State, Daniel Dan-Auta, the governor restated the commitment of his administration to strive to make NYSC function to capacity as a result of values it is adding to the economy of the state.
The Governor who made the commitment during an interview with newsmen shortly after declaring the orientation course open said the additional facilities would be captured in the third phase of the camp’s renovation.
According to him, “If you look around, you can see that we have just finished the first phase of the general renovation of the camp. It is in phases.
We are already in the second phase which include the parade ground, female hostel and staff quarters. We only have itches with the contractor and that has been sorted out.
“Due to our seriousness in upgrading the facilities here, NYSC headquarters has doubled the number of corps members to be deployed to Kaduna state.
“We are expanding the permanent site in the third phase to accommodate up to 3,000 corps members so we can have more of the essential workers you talked about”, he explained.
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Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kaduna, Alhaji Dahunsi Mohammed had earlier made a personate appeal to the state government to erect and furnish additional blocks of the hostel and staff quarters at the permanent orientation camp.
This according to the Coordinator, the facilities would help the state to have more corps members deployed to it by the scheme thereby having essential staff like medical doctors in its workforce across the state to address inadequacy in its medical sector in the interest of the people of the state.
The coordinator, however, expressed appreciation to Governor, Nasir el-Rufai for completion of the first phase of the renovation work at the camp which he said had made the orientation course more conducive.
The orientation course is the first of the four cardinal points of NYSC where corps members have tutored the nitty-gritty of task ahead under maximum regimentation within 21 days.
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