Ondo govt, NYSC collaborate on skills acquisition programmes for corps members

The Ondo State Government said on Friday that it was partnering the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to improve the lives of corps members economically, through skills acquisition programmes.

Gov Oluwarotimi Akeredolu said this on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony for the 2019 Batch ‘A’ corps members, deployed to the state, at the Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare Akoko.

Akeredolu, represented by the Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Mr Saka Yusuf-Ogunleye, said that it was not only the NYSC that the government was collaborating with.

According to the governor, the state government is also partnering all other relevant bodies and agencies to make the state great.

The governor, who also inspected the renovation of the permanent orientation camp, said that security of lives and property of corps members was one of his priorities for the construction of the perimeter fence.

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“We are committed, as partners in progress, to improve corps members economically by collaborating with the NYSC.

“It will not stop at the NYSC level alone but in all sectors. We will do our best as a responsible government,’’ Akeredolu said.

Earlier, the State Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Grace Akpabio, said that various platforms were available for corps members to help prepare themselves for the challenges of the service year and post-service life.

Akpabio advised the corps members to see their deployment to the state as a divine arrangement; thereby making themselves useful to the scheme, the state and the country at large.

She noted that 1,964 corps members, consisting of 1,067 males and 897 females from various states of the federation, were registered at the camp.