NYSC Deploys I, 500 Corps Members in Bayelsa, Tasks them on COVID-19 Vaccination

Olusegun Samuel

The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has deployed 1,500 corps members in Bayelsa State for the 2021 Batch B, stream II service year, urging them to always make themselves available for the COVID-19 vaccination. The members were also encouraged to ensure healthy interactions and exchange ideas that will broaden their understanding of the country and build lasting friendships that will make them the vanguard of national unity and integration.

The NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, who was represented by the state Coordinator, Mrs. Ojugo Elizabeth Iyowuna, made this known yesterday during the opening/swearing-in ceremony of corps members deployed in the state at the NYSC orientation camp in Kaiama town, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.

According to Ibrahim, the corps members have been deliberately assembled from diverse ethno-religious and socio-economic backgrounds to enable them begin the performance of their much envisage roles to promote national unity and integration.

He, therefore, advised them to ensure healthy interactions and exchange of ideas that would broaden their understanding of the country and build lasting friendships.

The DG said the corps members would be taken through lessons on the cardinal programmes of the NYSC general code of conduct, leadership coaching, paramilitary drills, and other physical trainings as well as the sensitisation on topical national issues.

The NYSC boss enjoined the corps members to imbibe the virtues of the Corps during and after their service as stated in the oath of allegiance administered on them.

He also encouraged them to avail themselves of the opportunity provided by the NYSC Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development ( SAED) programme to become employers of labour instead of joining the rank of unemployed graduates scouting for the rarely available white collar jobs.