FG has no plans to scrap NYSC-DG

The Director General of the Nation­al Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig Gen Sule Kazaure, has dispelled insinuations in certain quarters that the Federal Government is contemplating scraping the scheme.

Kazaure, who stated this Wednesday, while fielding questions from newsmen after the swearing - in ceremony of the 2016 Batch A stream corps members at the NYSC Orienta­tion camp, Umunna, Abia State, said the scheme had come to stay as a tool for nation­al integration.

He also said the scheme would be sus­tained despite funding challenges in view of its role in national inte­gration, adding that the management had over­come the initial logistic challenges that delayed mobilisation of corps members to camp.

Addressing the corps members earlier, he ad­vised them to be law-abiding and shun vices while in the camp and all through their service year.

He enjoined them to actively participate in all their programmes dur­ing the camping espe­cially skills acquisition programme for self-re­liance upon passing out.

The NYSC boss also enjoined the corps members to be patriotic and abide by the rules of the camp as a regiment­ed environment.

“Love our country be­cause we have no other country than Nigeria”, he said, while advising the corps members to avoid night movements and unnecessary trips”.

He advocated inter-ethnic marriages among the corps members as a way of promoting national unity and co­hesion among various tribes in Nigeria.

Gen Kazaure also ad­vised the corps mem­bers to respect the cultures of their host communities during their service year and to identify with the needs of their host communi­ties.