Don’t reject corps members, state coordinator begs employers in Kwara

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

Kupolati made the appeal on Monday while speaking with journalists at the NYSC permanent orientation camp at Yikpata, Edu local government of Kwara

“I advice the Corps members employers to help the Federal Government and help the Scheme by accepting Corps members posted to their offices for the primary assignment.

“If the intervention call 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 in these students and moulds 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 added.

The State Coordinator 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 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 can 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 added that she renovated of one of the hostels in the camp from the Internally Generated Revenue and from support from NYSC headquarters.

According to her, she approached the Senate President, Bukola Saraki for assistance and after a lot of pressure on the Senate President and persistent callings, he release 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 procure drugs for treatment of Corps members.

The State Coordinator said roads in the camp were all in deplorable conditions when she resumed.

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

“When I approached the Managing Director, he said I should pay certain amount of money, but after a month, he came and said he would the roads for us free,” she said.