Gov Warns Corps Members Against Drug Abuse, Fraud, Kidnapping

Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola, yesterday urged corps members to shun and abstain from social vices like drug abuse, advanced fee fraud, kidnapping, robbery, cultism and violent crimes, capable of undermining their potential as future leaders.
Oyetola gave this admonition at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Permanent Camp in Ede, Osun, during the swearing-in ceremony of 2019 Batch B Stream II prospective corps members posted to the state.
The governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prince Wole Oyebamiji, said that celebration of youth corp members was a worthy event, taking cognisance of the positive role they played in society.
Oyetola said that NYSC had been grooming and moulding graduate youths to fit in with aspirations and blueprint of the nation toward total emancipation and economic expansion.
He said youths constituted the most productive segment of the population and society, urging them to see themselves as leading light for the present and future.
The governor said that their mandatory service would afford them the opportunity to be a blessing to the nation by impacting positively lives of people in their immediate environment.