The Lagos State Government says it intends to include the National Youth Corps members serving in the state in the development of a lasting NYSC orientation camp at Agbowa in Ikorodu.
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state expressed this on Monday during a kindness visit by the Director-General of NYSC, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim and his supervisory crew at Alausa, Ikeja.
The Deputy Governor, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, received the NYSC team on behalf of the governor in his office.
“By involving those corps members that are engineers and serving in Lagos in the project, it will expose them to the world of work and broaden their knowledge in their field of specialization.
“You can organize a competition for them to come up with various building plans and the NYSC will adopt the best out of them.
“We understand the essence of the scheme because we were once corps members too,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu likewise accentuated that such association of the corps members would make them enter into the NYSC Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Scheme implied for corps members for the most part.
He said that the corps members’ inclusion would likewise be adept, especially, since the state government planned to begin the teaching of business enterprise in its government-funded schools.
The governor assured the NYSC board that the administration would participate with the plan, in accomplishing its mandate in Lagos state.
Prior, the NYSC D-G, Brig.- Gen. Ibrahim had communicated gratefulness to the Lagos state government for its help to the plan throughout the years.
He urged the state government to start the development of the changeless direction camp, saying that the present site of direction camp was getting to be lacking for corps members and NYSC staff.
“Our appeal now is that we want the state government to speed up the construction of the permanent orientation camp, as the present one is inadequate.
“We have over 26,631 corps members at present serving in the state and we are expecting over 2,000 corps members for the Batch `B’ orientation in June.
“So, we need more space to accommodate them, “he said.
The D-G also appealed to the state government to provide land where the NYSC could construct its Skills’ Acquisition and Entrepreneurship center.
According to him, the scheme has already established similar centers in Ekiti and Gombe states.
Ibrahim also wished Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his team a successful tenure.
