Abuja
Five corps members have been found wanting by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos state in the course of the service year and are to repeat the programme.
Coordinator, NYSC Lagos, Mr. Eddy Megwa, made this known Thursday in Lagos at the passing out of 1,188 corps members of the 2020 Batch B Stream II deployed in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, which was observed on a lowkey, was held at the NYSC temporary orientation camp, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.
Megwa congratulated the outgoing corps members on the successful completion of their service year and urged them to make the best use of skills they had acquired to make wealth and become employers of labour.
“These cream of Nigerian youths are exceptional and dedicated; 99 per cent of them have proved to give in their best to the state and nation in the course of their service year.
“However, five of them violated the NYSC rules. Once we notice that a corps member is not available consecutively for three months, we declare he/she absconded and the punishment is a repeat of the service year.
“Two of them are guilty of the offence and we are going to remobilise them to that effect, while three others will have their service year extended by two to three months respectively.
“I am proud of other corps members, having selflessly committed and contributed to the socio-economic development of the local government areas, state and the nation at large.
“I urge them to continue to be great ambassadors of NYSC,” he said.
NAN