Not less than four outgoing members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) 2021 Batch C stream 1 would repeat their service year in Bauchi state.
The State’s NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Namadi Abubakar, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Thursday, during the collection of discharge certificates by the corps members.
He said that the affected corps members were sanctioned for various offences ranging from abscondment, absenteeism and others, during their service year.
Abubakar, who reiterated that the scheme has zero tolerance for truancy and would not hesitate to punish any erring corp member, said that 27 others would have their service year extended for at least three weeks for misconducts during their service year.
According to him, out of the 1,151 corps members who passed out, five of them would be rewarded with the state award honour for their outstanding contribution towards uplifting the living standard of their host communities through tangible Community Development Service (CDS) projects.
He further said that in line with the scheme's mission of contributing to the development of the country, the scheme posted a high number of the corps medical personnel to the rural areas of Bauchi state, adding that the gesture had gone a long way in addressing the shortfall in personnel in the health sector.
He said that the corps medical personnel through the scheme's Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD), had assisted thousands of citizens in the rural communities across the state.
The state Coordinator also said that in order to contribute to the educational development in the state, quite a number of Corps Members were posted to schools to contribute their own quota immensely through teaching.
"I will like to urge the outgoing corps members to continue to be good ambassadors of the scheme and also maximise the skills acquisition and entrepreneurship learnt during their service year," he said.
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