The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has approved a 100 per cent increment in the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps deployed to Kogi State for their mandatory one-year service.
This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lokoja and made available to newsmen by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Onogwu Mohammed.
The Governor was said to have made the approval considering the current economic realities and the overall importance of the NYSC scheme to national and state development.
He spoke during the closing ceremony of the 2023 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 of the NYSC at the State’s Orientation Camp, Asanya, in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, on Tuesday.
The Governor also announced a donation of N37.7m as logistics support for the Youth Corps members as they move to their respective places of primary assignments and called on private sector employers to prioritise their welfare.
He charged the Corps members to be of good behaviour and encouraged them to embrace the spirit of ‘One Nigeria’ and treat all citizens as fellow Nigerians, transcending ethnic and religious boundaries.
The State’s NYSC Coordinator, Pastor (Mrs) Adebimpe Williams, and the Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Hon Idris Musa, commended Governor Yahaya Bello for his administration’s longstanding support for the programme.
They also stresed the importance of good behaviour at the corps members’ primary assignments, highlighting that absenteeism from a Place of Primary Assignment remained a serious violation that the scheme strongly discouraged, with significant disciplinary consequences.
A total of 1888 corps members, comprising 977 males and 911 females, were deployed to Kogi State.
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