Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has charged the staff of the corps on effective compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
He urged them to ensure effective record management, effective liaison as well as prompt response to enquiries in their respective secretariats.
He spoke at the opening of the NYSC FoI desk officers’ workshop in Abuja.
The director-general maintained that since the enactment of the FoI Act in 2011, the scheme had been at the forefront of ensuring total compliance with the provisions of the Act.
“Since assumption of duty as director-general of the NYSC, I have noted your efforts at recruiting, training and mentoring of the Corps FoIA vanguard, which is laudable, especially the routine sentsitisation of the public on the Freedom of Information Act,” he said.
He further stressed that the workshop would consolidate the successes recorded by the scheme even as he urged them to make effective use of the knowledge gained.
“Let me seize this opportunity to remind Nigerians that the NYSC has done so much for the unity of the country over the last four decades.
“Apart from promoting national unity, the selfless services rendered by the young men and women on national service have brought positive transformation to the socioeconomic development of the country over the years,” he added.