The Director General (DG) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Bamidele Olawunmi, today, said the agency has put up adequate security arrangements for the safety of corps members in Osun State and other parts of the country.
Speaking at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun State, during his visit to the camp, the DG said: “One thing we don’t joke about is your security. We have put security measures in place for you even outside the community.
“We have put in place distress call centres which you can call anytime you have complaints about your welfare or about security.
” You can even reach me directly on my twitter handle @nysc_ng if your state coordinator is not granting your request.”
Olawunmi stated that Osun State was a peaceful state adding that the agency had not recorded any case of kidnapping in the state.
The DG rated infrastructure at NYSC camp in Osun State as fairly good, saying the camp was better than some others in the country.
He urged corps members to lay attention to skills acquisition and entrepreneurship development programmes at various camps, saying the opportunities could turn around the lives of some of the corps members.
He said everybody should be looking at how they could create jobs in order to reduce the growing armies of unemployed youths in the country.
He further stated that the Bank of Industry. (BOI) which was supporting the entrepreneurial development programme had set aside N2bn to support corps members who showed interest.