NYSC Warn Corps Members Ahead of 2019 General Elections

Farouk Mohammed November 4, 2018

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INEC Registration — INEC staff (File Photo)

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure has called on corps members that would take part in the 2019 general elections to display a high sense of integrity.

A statement issued by the Assistant Director, Public Relations, NYSC Oyo State, Christy Olatoye, on Sunday, quoted the DG as reminding the corps members that the NYSC as a non-partisan organisation.

The Director-General was represented by the Director Planning, Research and Statistics, Victoria Okakwu.

The statement reads: “When you are called upon, with discipline and steadfastness, ensure that you put in your best and at the end, your name will be written in the sand of time.

“As corps members, who are part of the Big Family (NYSC), you should be celebrated having graduated from the various institutions which qualifies you to be mobilised for the one year mandatory service to the fatherland.

“I want you to be happy being a part of this great family which from inception had not relented on its efforts in building and incorporating young vibrant graduates into the plan of nation building.

“The Management celebrates you our dear corps members; we see in you the future great Dangotes and Otedolas.

“You are advised to embrace hard work and good virtues that will elevate you to the top,” he said.

The Director-General also enjoined the corps members to embrace the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme by acquiring skills that would turn them to employers of labour and wealth creators.