The Enugu State Coordinator, National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Sam Ujogu, says the NYSC received a total of 647 graduates posted to the state for the 2023 Batch ‘A’ Stream 1 Orientation.
Ujogu gave the number during the swearing-in of the corps members, on Friday in Awgu, near Enugu.
He said the orientation course for the 2023 Batch ‘A’ stream 1 of corps members commenced on January 25.
“The orientation courses for this Batch of corps members commenced two days ago. At the closing of registration by midnight on Thursday, a total of 647 Corps members were registered comprising 350 males and 297 females,” he said.
The state coordinator appealed to the Enugu State Government for the upgrading of the facilities in the camp and provision of operational vehicles to facilitate inspection of Corps members.
According to Ujogu, some of the structures in the camp are dilapidated and required urgent renovation.
He said that NYSC was still very hopeful that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi would approve funds to complete projects and other requests.
He thanked the Awgu Local Government Chairman, Mr Pedro Nwankwo, who had been constant in giving the NYSC in Enugu State logistics support at every orientation course.
He urged the corps members to pay attention to the skills acquisition training which had been reinvigorated by the management of the scheme.
He added that the scheme was to create opportunities for them to acquire vocational skills during the service year so as to enable them contribute meaningfully to national development and as well to become self-reliance.
Declaring the orientation course open, Governor Ugwuanyi said he was committed to providing the enabling environment to keep the scheme viable and to ensure the safety and welfare of corps members deployed to the state.
Ugwuanyi, represented by the state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Manfred Nzekwe, urged the corps members to make the best of the NYSC opportunity and become important parts of the history of the laudable programme.
The Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Raymond Ozoemena, represented by Justice A. O. Onovo, had earlier administered oath of service on the Corp members.
Ozoemena advised the corps members to always strive to move in the proper direction in life.
He said that the oath taken by the Corps members showed that they had been properly admitted into the NYSC scheme.
“You have just come out of various institutions of higher learning; and your targets should always be higher and not backward,” he said. (NAN)
