Directorate of Technical Aid Corps Receives Returning Volunteers from Uganda
Zubairu Muhammed and Tanimu Hassan, Abuja.
The Directorate of Technical Aid Corps (DTAC) has received the 2021 set of returning volunteers from Uganda, having completed their assignments in different capacities in the East African country.
The volunteers were given certificates of award by the Director General, Directorate of Technical Aid Corps (DTAC), Mr Yusuf Buba Yakub, at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
According to the agency, it intends to send more volunteers to fifty African countries in the next three years on the same mission.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Maitama Tuggar, represented by the Director, Planning Research and Statistics Department, Amb. Alexander Ajayi, commended the volunteers for their hard work and commitment to humanity while carrying out the mission in Uganda.
“The Technical Aid Corps scheme is one of the important instruments for our foreign policy. That is why it is very important to the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as articulation of our foreign policy,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Tugga.
While welcoming the volunteers, the Director General, Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Mr Yusuf Buba Yakub, said the aim of the programme is to strengthen relationship between Nigeria and other African nations.
“I must commend your effort by representating our country, Nigeria, as a whole.
“The people of Uganda see Nigerians through you. We thank God for the performances you exhibited in Uganda based on your areas of specialization.
“I was very impressed when we met with the Ugandan State Minister for Education, who is also the beneficiary of this humanitarian programme, Technical Aid Corps.
“If we can have such people of this dignitary, like the minister, in this programme, I think we have achieved the set goals of this programme.
“We will continue with this programme by sending Nigerians from different fields of expertise across the African nations in order to strengthen our diplomacy and to impart the knowledge of Nigerians to other countries in Africa,” he said.
One of the volunteers and team leader of the Technical Aid Corps programme, Mr Abubakar Babangida, a senior lecturer and Associate Dean of Research at the Biochemistry Science Department, Kampala International University, Uganda, described how he represented Nigeria and the service he rendered at the University.
“I was opportuned to serve my country, Nigeria, in another country.
“I am proud of that. Uganda is a very peaceful country with diverse people.
“I appreciate the Directorate of Technical Aid Corps for choosing to be part of this humanitarian service. And I appeal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the DTAC to strengthen the programme for more Nigerians,” said Mr Babangida.
The twenty-three (23) volunteers, from different educational fields, spent two years in Uganda under the programme, Technical Aid Corps scheme, under the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Directorate of Technical Aid Corps.
