Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushu’a Ahmed has warned corp members against posting camp activities on social media, adding that three corps members were expelled from the camp for flouting this rule.
Ahmed disclosed this on Saturday, July 6, 2024 while addressing 2762 corp members of Batch B, Stream One, at Ogun State NYSC Orientation Camp, Sagamu.
The DG congratulated the corp members for making it this far to the orientation camp, as many of their colleagues had not been so lucky academically to have the privilege of being called a corp member.
He urged them to take seriously the regimented training being given at the camp and avoid flouting any of the rules:
“Let me also remind you of the camp rules that you are not allowed to post the camp activities online or on social media, three of your colleagues elsewhere were found breaking these rules and posting camp activities on social media, and they have been decamped
“Night journeys are also not allowed; in fact, unnecessary journeys should be avoided because we have lost many corpers to such in the past. We don’t want that again, even if you must travel, you must have taken your permission and found somewhere to sleep once it is 6pm.
“And for your allowance, don’t worry, as soon as the ongoing negotiations on the minimum wage are concluded, you can be so sure that your allowance too will definitely go up. There is no way the government will forget you because you are really special”, he said.
On her part, the Ogun State Coordinator of NYSC, Mrs Olayinka Nasamu, disclosed that the camp opened on Wednesday, June 26 and has a total of 2762 corpers comprising of 922 males and 1423 females.
Nasamu said that as part of a deliberate strategy to prevent the outbreak of cholera in the camp, hand washing stations had been provided at the entrance of the camp and some other parts of the camp where the corpers have been instructed to wash their hands and use sanitisers while also ensuring that the camp is kept clean.
She said that corpers have also participated in all the camp programmes, particularly, Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, which aims at equipping the corpers with the skills to become employers of labour.
