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Oyinlola urges corps members to serve in rural areas
YOUTH corps members who are posted to the rural communities for their primary assignments have been charged to see such as opportunity of having first hand experience of plights of rural dwellers.
According to Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who made the appeal at terminal parade and closing ceremony of 2004 Batch "B" Orientation course at Ede near Osogbo, for youth corps members deployed to the state, this experience would make the corps members, as future leaders, to be sympathetic to plights of rural dwellers.
Oyinlola, who was represented by his deputy, Erelu Olusola Obada, said corps members should help their host communities to develop various settlements to which they had been posted.
He assured them of his administration's commitment to aid them as necessary machinery was already in motion for youths towards transforming rural communities into friendly settlements thereby discouraging rural-urban drift.
He said: "The state government in its efforts at repositioning its economy had embarked on aggressive agricultural production, creation of a conducive atmosphere for both local and foreign investment and building of infrastructures and empowerment of people in informal sector."
According to him, these were borne out of the conviction that socio-economic well being of the people was the sole determinant of good governance.
The governor also reiterated his administration's standing directive that all ministries, government departments, agencies and secondary schools to which corps members were posted to, should not only accept them but create enabling environment for them to reach their maximum output.
According to him, Osun State needs development in all spheres of life and all hands must therefore be on deck to achieve that laudable objective.
Oyinlola also reassured that the permanent orientation camp would be ready for next year's camping.
In his earlier address, the state co-ordinator of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC), Fidelis Osakwe, said 80 per cent of 1450 corps members deployed to the state would serve in secondary schools located in all nooks and crannies of the state. He stressed that this was in line with NYSC's tradition and policy of grassroots administration for accelerated transformation of both urban and rural areas in the state.
He urged corps members to see their postings as challenge to them to make their contributions to national development and the state in particular.
He used the occasion to appeal to chairmen of local councils in the state that were yet to constitute NYSC local government committees to do so without further delay. The committees, he noted, would help to address the welfare of corps members in their various domains.
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