NYSC sends 70 corps members on foreign training

THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director General, Brig.- Gen. Maharazu Tsiga, has disclosed that 70 serving corps members are undergoing training on skill acquisition in Germany and the United States (U.S.).

Tsiga made the disclosure yesterday while addressing workers of the scheme drawn from Edo, Delta, Ekiti and Ondo states that are undergoing a three-day sensitisation programme on effective service delivery at the NYSC permanent orientation camp, Ise-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

According to him, 50 corps members are currently on skill acquisition programmes in Germany while 20 are in the U.S. for the same programme at the expense of the scheme.

The NYSC boss explained that the foreign training was part of efforts of the government at repositioning the scheme and corps members for greater challenges.

He also said that the NYSC was collaborating with the government of Liberia to provide expertise for the establishment of the scheme in the country.

“I am glad to say that due to tremendous achievements of NYSC in the past years and most especially in the conduct of the April 2011 general elections, the international community is now preparing to accept our corps members and staff of the scheme for training and retraining and mostly on skill acquisition programmes,” he noted.

While urging workers of the scheme to eschew all forms of negative practices capable of running the scheme down, Tsiga observed that one of the challenges confronting the NYSC were calls by some people that it should be scrapped.

“Scraping of the NYSC will lead to kidnapping, robbery and other vices will be on the increase in the country and most importantly it will lead to throwing over 5,000 workforce of the scheme into the employment market,” the director general stated.

He said that the management of the scheme was working to address the security challenges being faced by the corps members and workers of NYSC.

According to him, “security issue is a collective responsibility. I therefore urged parents, corps members, government at all levels and other stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration with the scheme in this regard.”

Also speaking, the NYSC director of administration, Alhaji Abba Tanko, said the exercise was to ensure that workers were well equipped on effective service delivery.

-Guardian

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