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By Ebube Egbufor
Rivers State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Chief Chinwendu Chukwu, has called for aggressive youth empowerment using the NYSC skills acquisition model so as to help curb issues of separatist agitations and insecurity.
Chukwu made the call Friday while presiding over the 2021 Batch A Stream 2 swearing in ceremony for corps members deployed to Rivers State at the NYSC permanent orientation camp, Nonwa-Gbam Tai, Tai local government area.
He noted that since the NYSC skill acquisition programme was first introduced in 2012, its impact on corps members has been phenomenal as it has greatly reduced unemployment among graduate youths.
The NYSC boss thus called on the 3 tiers of government and the organized private sector to key into the NYSC skill acquisition model in order to empower the youths and offer them a sustainable means of livelihood.
He pointed out that when the youths are actively engaged with a sustainable means of livelihood, the waves of insecurity ravaging the nation will become a thing of the past, as he congratulated the corps members for being mobilized into the noble NYSC Scheme and wished them a successful orientation course exercise.
Earlier, the oath of allegiance was administered on the corps members by the Rivers State chief judge represented by Hon. Justice Iheanyichukwu Wodi.
A total of 2350 corps members were sworn in during the ceremony.
