Ondo Govt canvasses improved welfare for corps members
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure
The Ondo state deputy governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has called on corps employers in the state to adequately remunerate corps members posted to them for the mandatory one year national service.
Aiyedatiwa, who made the call on Thursday in his goodwill message read during the 2021 NYSC Ondo state corps employers workshop held in Akure, the state capital said that corps employers who desire the best services from corps members should be willing to make them comfortable.
The deputy governor, who was represented by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Prince Segun Omojuwa said, “distinguished corps employers, we should complement the effort of the Federal Government and motivate the graduate youths posted to your establishment with your resources if you want the best from them.
“NYSC as a veritable institution has mobilised and deployed graduate youths to all the states of the federation and the only way to make them comfortable and give you the best services is to display love and affection towards them as you would to your biological children.”
He, also charged the corps members to see themselves as part of every organisation they are posted to serve and not to assume the status of contract staff whose assignment finishes at the expiration of the terms of engagement.
He said, “Gentlemen corps members, Ondo State holds NYSC in high esteem and you have more to contribute to the overall development of this country and in so doing, you will leave a lasting legacy that would be too difficult to erase at the end of your service year.”
In his own keynote address, the Director General of NYSC Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, said that the Scheme has positioned the young men and women on National Service as change agents and key contributors to the development of the country.
The NYSC boss, who was represented by the Assistant Director in the Southwest Area Office, Chief Tunde Fadairo, however, disclosed that NYSC management placed high premium on the security of lives and property of corps members throughout the service year.
