The National Youths Service Corps has urged pregnant corps members to serve the nation as expected of them saying “pregnancy is not a disease.”
The Kogi State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Mofoluwaso Williams, made the call in her paper titled “Tackling emerging challenges in corps administration through NYSC/stakeholders.”
Williams delivered the paper at the Kogi Annual 2023 Corps Employers Workshop held at the Government House, Lokoja.
She urged employers and organisations not to allow corps members to use pregnancy as an excuse not to perform their responsibilities to the nation.
She said, “Every workplace has its own peculiar challenges, and so is our various places of primary assignments where corps members are engaged for the one-year mandatory service to their fatherland.
“Pregnancy is not a disease; therefore, organisations should not allow corps members to use this as an alibi in any form.
“Pregnant or nursing corps members who use pregnancy as an alibi for absenteeism or rudeness to officers should not be tolerated.”
Williams frowned upon “lazy corps members who are not ready to work but want to be paid for the job not done or those who are not ready to do anything extra for the organisation.”
She advised employers to take the engagement of corps members seriously and ensure that they assist them to develop themselves into qualitative, trusted, and capable future leaders.
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