The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged stakeholders in the mobilisation process to live up to expectation in discharging their duties.
It said it would apply sanctions on any erring Corps Producing Institution found to have compromised in order to serve as deterrent to others.
The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim stated this in his address at the opening ceremony of the 2021 Batch ‘C’ Pre-Mobilisation Workshop held in Abuja on Thursday.
The workshop with the theme; “Enhancing Stakeholders’ Roles For a Credible Mobilisation Process”, is an avenue for robust interface between the NYSC and other collaborating partners in the mobilisation process.
General Ibrahim said that ”though NYSC has faced challenges occasioned by the presentation of unqualified graduates for National service, the Scheme has recorded tremendous improvement in data integrity.
“The on-going reforms in the mobilisation process and other aspects of our operations are therefore in line with our quest to sustain this relevance.”
”As critical partners, your support for the success of the reforms cannot be over-emphasised, and as stakeholders in the NYSC project, you will agree with me that the continued relevance of the Scheme is undisputable.
”Not withstanding the successes however, we will not hesitate to apply necessary sanction on erring institutions or officials,” he said.
The FCT Minister, Alhaji Muhammad Bello, represented by the Acting Secretary, FCT Social Development Secretariat, Dr Kelvin Ike, commended Corps members deployed to the Capital territory for their services.
He pledged his administration’s support for the implementation of the Scheme’s programmes.
The Director, Corps Mobilisation, Mrs Victoria Ango disclosed that over the years, the mobilisation platform has not betrayed its purpose, but proved its worth as a veritable avenue where ideas harvested have helped in improving the process.
Participants at the workshop include; Students’ Affairs Officers from all the 309 Corps Producing Institutions across the country and representatives from other collaborating agencies like the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Board for Technical Education (NABTEB), National Universities Commission (NUC), Federal Ministry of Education, among others.
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