THE coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Emmanuel Attah on Thursday told Governor Aregbesola that some local government chairmen in the state were not releasing funds released by the state government to the scheme.
Making this disclosure at the swearing-in ceremony of 2018 Batch B Stream II corps members held at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun, he alleged that the funds released by the governor to the scheme through some council chairmen were not being received.
He stated, “Mr Governor Sir, I am constrained to bring this before you, the attitude of some of your local government executive chairmen. We are bringing the case to you to take immediate action because the NYSC is being short-changed by this local government chairmen.
According to Attah, “the monthly impress that is supposed to accrue to NYSC local inspectors for running offices are not being given to them. Why some council chairmen are remitting theirs to the scheme at the local government level, some deliberately refused to release this fund which had been released by Mr Governor to cushion the hardship the scheme is going through”.
While passing a vote of no confidence on the council bosses allegedly withholding the impress, he declared that “we have lost confidence in them and we are bringing it before you to take action because we can no longer bear it.”
Attah, however, admonished the new corps members in camp to see their mobilisation as an opportunity to contribute their quota to the socio-economic growth of Nigeria, stressing that healthy development of the country should be the collective responsibility of all”.
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Aregbesola, who was represented at the event by the acting Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Senator Mudashiru Hussein congratulated the corps members on the successful completion of their educational programmes from institutions of higher learning in Nigeria and outside the country.
Describing the swearing-in ceremony as a new phase of duty and service to their fatherland, the governor charged them to be the nation’s ambassadors of peace and unification by shunning get-rich-quick syndrome, adding that should embrace virtues of diligence, hard work and integrity.
A total sum of 2025 corps members, comprising 1270 males and 755, were deployed to Osun and from Ondo and were administered with the oath of allegiance by the Chief Judge of Osun, represented by Justice Kudirat Akano.
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