Corps members’ relatives barred from NYSC orientation camp

[Mirror]

Families, friends and other members of the public whose wards are among the newly sworn-in members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Lagos State have been asked to stay away from the orientation camp.

Giving the directive at the Iyana-Ipaja Orientation Camp Ground of the organisation in Agege during the swearing-in ceremony of the '2013 Batch B' corps members recently, the chairman of the state's NYSC Governing Board who doubles as the state's Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr Wale Ahmed said he gave the directive to enable the new corps members concentrate fully in all activities demanded of them during the three- week orientation programme.

Ahmed, in his address, read on his behalf, by an Assistant Director, Special Services in his ministry, Mrs. Cordelier Okechukwu assured all the 2,151 new corps members posted to the state of their safety while urging them to be law abiding.

In her address, the state's Coordinator of the scheme, Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi urged the new corps members to take advantage of the NYSC programme for personal and national development noting that the 40 years old scheme had become a globally recognised platform for participants to gain practical knowledge of challenges ahead.

She also told them to take all the activities, including the paramilitary drills, Man O War skills, advocacy programmes and physical fitness exercises very seriously, noting that the activities would help them in future.

National Mirror