The 2020 Batch ‘A’ Stream 1, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Members deployed to serve in Abia State have been charged to utilize the period of their service year
to learn new skills as to be self reliant and contribute their quota to the economic growth of the nation.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu who gave the charge, today while declaring the swearing in ceremony open at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Umunna Bende LGA,noted that the orientation course is designed to adequately equip Corps members for the task of nation building and challenges that lie ahead of the service year.
His words: “I am aware that a good percentage of your time during this orientation has been allotted to skills acquisition and entrepreneurial training. I therefore charge you to utilize this opportunity to expand your scope by acquiring an additional skill to what you may have learnt during the course of your study in school.
“Try and learn a skill while here in camp, as you all know that jobs are no longer there.
“Some of your predecessors who heeded this counsel are today business owners, doing well in their various business and contributing positively to the economic growth of the nation”.
Represented by Secretary to the State Government, Barr Chris Ezem, the Governor, who described Corps members as the hope of the nation urged them to make positive impact throughout the duration of their service programme as well as participate actively in all camp activities pointing out that it is a sure way of learning the rudiments of leadership and administration.
In his address, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Emeka Ikwuagwu, said the orientation program would provide the corps members the platform for physical, emotional and psychological orientation needed to meet up with the challenges of the service year and beyond.
The State Coordinator, Lady Bona Fasakin on her part said, the three weeks orientation program commenced last Tuesday with the registration of one thousand nine hundred and two corps members.
While urging the corps members to participate fully in camp activities,Fasakin
warned against all forms of cultism and unethical behaviors during the orientation course.
According to her, following concerns raised by the general public over the outbreak of Lassa fever and that of the newest Corona virus, the NYSC management adopted some basic preventive measures including sensitizing corps members and officials of the camp to avert the spread of the dreaded disease.
