Sixteen Nigerian Volunteers have been selected and deployed to Liberia to render Technical Aids in various educational capacities.
The Director General, Directorate for Technical Aids and Corps, Doctor Yusuf Yakubu stated this during the deployment exercise.
“Our business is to continue to facilitate the recruitment and orientation of Nigerian professionals in diverse fields of endeavor for deployment to recipient countries in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, where their professional ingenuity is highly needed.
“This is what Nigeria has continued to do since 1987 when the Directorate was established and was perfected by an Act of Parliament in 1993,” Dr. Yakubu said.
The Director General urge the volunteers to be good ambassadors while delivering their mission in Liberia.
“Knowing that you have received the requisite orientation on the demands of the Technical Aids Corps (TAC) scheme and all that are required from you, it is therefore, expected that your Involvement in this journey for service to humanity and country must be one that will be characterise and guided by Patriotism, Discipline, Commitment to service, Obedience to primary auditory and Commitment to the agreement you have entered with your nation, Nigeria, “ the Director General cautioned.
Dr. Yusuf Yakubu explained that, the commitment is to achieve the Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision of Renewed Hope Agenda and pledge to join hands with all stakeholders to pursue all the laudable intentions of that Vision.
“In strict compliance with Mr. President’s mandate to all officials of the present administration, we came into Directorate Technical Aids and Corps (DTAC) less than a month, we set out for the pursuit of Mr. President’s mandate, a 3-Point Agenda that aligns with his Renewed Hope Agenda these are; Re-Positioning, Re-energising and Re-Engineering,” Dr. Yakubu stated.