BY ANAYO OKOLI

UMUAHIA – Director-General, National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier General Nnamdi Okore-Affia, Wednesday restated the position of the corps not to post members to volatile areas this service year.

Gen. Okore-Affia said the decision was reached following the ugly incident in the past when some corps members were killed by Boko Haram members in some parts of the North.

Okore-Affia, who spoke when he visited Governor Theodore Orji in Umuahia, explained that the decision was taken because the Corps viewed the lives of corps members very important to the country and their parents, and would, therefore, not expose them to danger.

Okorie-Affia said he was in the state to thank the governor for the numerous supports he had given to the state NYSC camp and for the adequate security being given to corps members deployed to the state.

The NYCS boss commended the government for the state-of-th-art NYSC orientation camp in the state and other things the current administration had done for the scheme in terms of up lifting the welfare of both the state NYSC corps members and the officials.

“I am happy with the standard of the NYSC orientation camp in the state, which is of the highest standard in the country, unlike other orientations camps in some states which look more or less like refugee camps,” the DG said.

In his remarks, Governor Orji charged the NYSC boss to bring his wealth of experience to bear in transforming the scheme, pointing out that the entire nation was looking up to him to change the focus of the scheme that had brought pride to the country.

Orji said he was happy that an Abia man was now the Director General of the NYSC, saying  the scheme was very dear to his government.

He noted that the NYSC had helped the state and other states across the country to augment their labour force.
He said his administration worked hard to give the NYSC camp at Item in Bende Local Government Area of the state a face lift, and promised to finish the ongoing structures at the camp.