Four Corps members of the 2021 Batch C, stream 1, of the national youth service corps (NYSC) in Sokoto State, are to repeat their service year.
The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Muhammad Nakamba, disclosed this at the passing out ceremony of 2021 Batch C, stream 1, corps members in Sokoto.
He also said two corp members will have their service extended by three weeks for misconduct and abscondment.
The State Coordinator maintained that NYSC is a scheme of reward and punishment stressing that the scheme has zero tolerance for truancy and would not hesitate to punish any erring corps member.
According to Nakamba, out of 872 corps members who passed out, two males and females were shortlisted for the Sultan meritorious award for their outstanding contributions to the development of the state during their service year.
He further explained that the scheme posted a high number of corps medical personnel to the rural areas where they are most needed.
He urged the outgoing corps members to be good ambassadors of the scheme wherever they found themselves, wishing them success in their future endeavours and also safe journeys to their various destinations.
He advised them to maximise the gain of skills acquired during the service year stressing that white-collar jobs are not easy to get by nowadays.
He congratulated the Director General of the scheme, Brig-Gen Muhammad Fadah, for successfully spending hundred days in office, praying that God should grant him more wisdom to pilot the affair of the scheme.
The NYSC boss thanked Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State for sustaining the corps monthly allowance, which he said has helped many corps members in the state.
“Let me use this opportunity to thank His Excellency the Executive Governor of Sokoto State for his unflinching support to the scheme especially the payment of monthly allowance to the corps members posted to the state, the gesture is unequal” he stated.
He also thanked His Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar for his benevolence gesture saying he has been given the award to the two best corps members of every batch.
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