The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has warned corps members to desist from taking Indian hemp, saying that anyone caught doing so would be dismissed from the scheme.
The DG made the disclosure on Friday while addressing Batch B Stream 2 corps members undergoing orientation at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State.
Ibrahim further warned that any corps member caught abusing drugs and other substances would be handed over to the police for prosecution after dismissal.
He urged the corps members to be of good conduct and imbibe the tenets of the scheme for which they were called to serve.
“Unity and discipline, fundamental aspects of your orientation, should guide you throughout the duration of your service,” the NYSC DG stressed.
Ibrahim said that the NYSC set up a Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme to impart entrepreneurial skills that could make corps members self-reliant and urged them to take advantage of it.
He further said that the Bank of Industry and CBN were available to disburse soft loans to help actualise any corps member’s entrepreneurial drive.
“Once you benefit from the loan scheme please I beg you not to default so that others too can benefit from the programme.
“Gone are the days where you can relax somewhere after obtaining your certificates and expect white collar jobs at the centre.
“You must develop your creative enterprise and make jobs where none exists. Seek to be employers and not employees,” Ibrahim said.
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