The Acting Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Mrs Christy Uba, has said signing of the scheme’s trust fund bill into law will empower corps members after their service.
Uba made this known on Saturday after the inspection tour of the ongoing construction of 700 male and 700 female bed capacity hostels at the NYSC Camp in Issele Uku, Delta.
According to her, the fund will go a long way to provide resources for NYSC to empower youths by the time they finish their service, as they would have the capital to start their own businesses.
“The fund will create resources for a greater percentage of corps members trained under the NYSC skill acquisition programmes to start up their businesses.
“We have gone far in respect of the NYSC Trust Fund and we are waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent. The bill is important because it will provide start up capital for the corps members.
“The scheme has been in place since 2012, and there are various skill acquisitions training in camps to harness the potential of corps members.
“After their three weeks in camp, there is what we call post camp training and through these programmes, many of them have become self-employed and employers of labour and it has contributed greatly to national development,” she said.
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