Esther Tosin Ikupolati, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) State Coordinator in Kwara, has appealed to employers of corps members not to reject those posted to their offices.

Kupolati made the appeal on Monday while speaking with newsmen at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp at Yikpata, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara.

“I advise the employers to help the Federal Government and help the scheme by accepting corps members posted to their offices for the primary assignments.

“If the intervention call by NYSC is not there, what do you think would have happened?

“These graduates in their thousands would be released from their universities and polytechnics to the labour market that is not there.

“NYSC is a special intervention that takes these students, mould them and prepare them for the life ahead of them.

“So for those that are rejecting corps members, they are not helping the Federal Government and they are not helping themselves, ‘’ Ikupolati said.

The NYSC chief, therefore, appealed to employers in the state to look into the issue of accepting the corps members and prepare them for the future.

Ikupolati also expressed concern over the porous nature of the orientation camp and the security implication to corps members and officials.

She called on the state government to construct perimeter fence round the camp to make it secure for corps members and camp officials.

The state coordinator agreed that the camp was large but added that the fencing could be done in phases.

Ikupolati said what she met on ground at the camp when she resumed four months ago was horrible, adding that most facilities were dilapidated.

She said that she renovated one of the hostels in the camp from the Internally Generated Revenue and with the of the NYSC headquarters.

According to her, I approached the Senate President, Bukola Saraki for assistance and after a lot of pressure on the senate president and persistent calls, he released the sum of N5.7 million for the renovation.

Ikupolati said she used the money to renovate four hostels through direct labour; renovated the clinic; and procured drugs for treatment of corps members.

The NYSC boss said that roads in the camp were all in deplorable conditions when she resumed.

She said that she approached a Lebanese Construction Company that graded roads within the camp free of charge.

“When I first approached the managing director of the construction company, he said I should pay a certain amount of money but after a month, he came and said he would the roads for us free,”  Ikupolati said. (NAN)

– Nov. 26, 2018 @ 15:49 GMT |