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Make security top priority for corps members, Okowa tells communities leaders

By Owen Akenzua, Asaba
19 August 2017   |   4:26 am
Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has tasked communitiesí leaders in the state to make security top priority for corps members posted to their areas as measures created for enabling environment for them to carry out their primary assignments.

Members of the National Youth Service Corps PHOTO: NAN

Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has tasked communitiesí leaders in the state to make security top priority for corps members posted to their areas as measures created for enabling environment for them to carry out their primary assignments.

While urging the corpsí members to respect the cultural norms, and tradition of the communitiesí they are posted to, Okowa who gave this charge at the closing ceremony of the 2017 Batch ëAí Stream II of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) held in Issele-Uku, urged the corpers to show understanding and adaptability as a way to justify reasons for national service.

Okowa who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Festus Ovie Agas said that through the orientation exercise of the NYSC, the corpsí members would have been equipped with relevant qualities of perseverance, endurance, discipline and the ability to live amicably with others from different socio-economic backgrounds.

He appealed to the corpsí members to be cautious in their activities, undertakings as the current critical times could be tempting for most of them to pursue some adventures possible detrimental to their future environment for them to render their service to the nation.

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