Port Harcourt, Nigeria – Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state, has expressed happiness over the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) new policy direction on food security.
The policy aims to use corps members to massively boost the agricultural value chain and increase food production in Rivers state, a development the governor described as “heartwarming”.
The governor stated this on Friday at the NYSC permanent orientation camp at Nonwa-Gbam Tai Local Government Area (LGA) while swearing in the 2024 Batch C Stream I Corps Members deployed to the State.
Fubara, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Bureau, Office of the Secretary to the State Government.(SSG), Mr. Hamilton Amadi, commended the NYSC for its efforts towards attaining selfless service and commitment in building a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria.
“I charge you (corps members) to be disciplined, dedicated and committed in doing good through exemplary conduct and behavior.
“I assure you of my administration’s conscious and consistent effort to make your welfare and security top priority.”
The Coordinator, NYSC in Rivers State, Mr. Moses Oleghe, had enjoined the corps members to see the national service as a veritable opportunity to contribute their quota to nation building.
Oleghe commended the corps members for demonstrating high sense of patriotism and loyalty in realising the objectives of the orientation programme.
“I encourage you to make sincere and honest sacrifices that would engineer positive turnaround in the nation’s social and economic spheres,”.
A total of 1,901 corps members, comprising of 574 males and 1,327 females, were sworn in during the ceremony by Justice Diri Jumbo Stephens, who represented the state Chief Judge.
The event was attended by dignitaries, including the Executive Chairman of Tai LGA, Hon. Mathew Dike, the Director, NYSC South South Area Office II, Mr. Philip Enaberue, the paramount ruler of Gbam, HRH Charles Nwimene Nyorue, and security agencies amongst others.
