Corps members deployed by the National
Youth Service Corps in Anambra and Ogun states are being subjected to
intensive training in martial arts.
Anambra Coordinator of the scheme, Mrs.
Inyang Ekpe, and her Ogun counterpart, Mrs. Theresa Anosike, said this
on Wednesday at the swearing-in of the 2012 Batch B corps members at
NYSC orientation camps, Umunya and Sagamu respectively.
The Man O’War, the police, the Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Nigeria Army are involved in
the training of the corps members.
Ekpe said, “In view of the current security
and unemployment challenges facing the nation, management had
incorporated intensive skills acquisition programme and martial arts
training for al corps members.
“It is expected that these programmes will
to a large extent tackle the post-service unemployment and security
challenges facing the corps members in particular.”
Anosike said the 2,000 corps members
comprising 999 male and 1,001 female, so far registered, would be
equipped with self-defence skills in addition to the normal
para-military drills and physical training during the three-week
orientation programme.
She said the martial training would enable the corps members to defend themselves in the event of any attack by assailaints.
Anosike said, “Every corps member is
expected to begin his service year with an orientation course which is
the first of the four cardinal programmes of the NYSC. Corps members are
brought together in the camp environment and given para-military
training activities.
“These activities are designed to instill
discipline in them, toughen their resistance, and imbue in them
Spartan-like resilience that will prepare them for whatever challenges
they may encounter, during and after their service period.”
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