National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it would soon
commence the posting of corps members to farms as Place of Primary
Assignment (PPA).
The Director General, NYSC, Suleiman Kazaure, said this on Monday in
an interview with journalists during his official visit to the NYSC
Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State.
He said that the move to deploy corps members in farms was in line with the agricultural development programme of the NYSC.
According to him, the NYSC has concluded preparations to begin the
posting at the conclusion of the three-week orientation exercise.
He said that Bauchi, Oyo, Kebbi and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had been earmarked for the pilot phase.
“It should interest you to know that the NYSC will soon
begin its agricultural development scheme where corps members will be
posted to farms for their primary assignments.“Already the NYSC has acquired active farmlands across the nation’s
geopolitical zones with four already fully operational in Kwali, Bauchi,
Oyo and Kebbi.“After this orientation programme for the Batch ‘A’ corps members, we
will begin posting some of them to these farms as a pilot phase.“Though we are starting with four states for now, we will integrate
the other states as time goes, the project is ongoing,” Mr. Kazaure
said.
The NYSC boss had tasked the corps members not to seek white-collar
jobs which were non-existent but rather develop their potentials for
entrepreneurship excellence.
