The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged important stakeholders to improve the welfare and protection of corps members during the service year for enhanced productivity.
Charity Uba, the Acting Director-General of the NYSC, made the call at a one-day Corps Employers Workshop organised by the scheme on Friday in Owerri.
The acting DG who was represented by the Head of Inspection in the NYSC, Christopher Eze at the workshop themed “Achieving Improved Productivity of Corps Members Through Enhanced Welfare And Security During The Service Year, appreciated corps members' employers for preserving the objectives of the scheme.
She stated that the workshop intended to review the workings of the scheme and point out areas of low performance to proffer practical solutions to them.
Stating some of the challenges facing corps members, she mentioned economic recession, insecurity, lack of accommodation at the Places of Primary Assignment, inadequate remuneration, and lack of transit hostels at the state and local council levels.
Uba added that the workshop would analyse the roles of corps employers in achieving the ideals of the scheme and enhancing the existing relationship between the scheme, corps employers, and corps members.
"The unquantifiable of the education and energy imbued in these youths can best be harnessed only when enabling environment is created for them to effectively make their contributions.
"The dearth of welfare and good security for corps members is the bane of improved productivity hence the need to restore the dignity of the service year and sustain the productivity of corps members.
"Together we have held the torch of unity high. We have remained the willing giants upon whose copious shoulders Nigerian youths have stood proudly to peer into a beckoning future," she said.
Speaking earlier, the coordinator of the NYSC in Imo, Rachael Idaewor said that the workshop would also take place in each of the other two senatorial districts of the state.
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