NYSC DG Warns Corps Members Against Criticising The Government On Social Media

Major- Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has admonished corps members to be wary of how they portray the current administration’s policies on social media.

Ibrahim charged the Corps members to rather use courses taken at the orientation camps as a means to solve challenges facing the country.

He echoed this warning on Wednesday at the inauguration of the senior staff quarters, proposed and completed by NYSC coordinator Victoria Ani, at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko, Ondo.

He said: “Let me warn you against using social media to disparage government policies. Rather, you should allow all the lessons learnt in the course of the orientation programme to incorporate you into change vanguards and the youths of the new Nigeria, who will take the nation out of the myriads of challenges facing it.”

Emphasising the importance of NYSC, he said: “My dear patriotic children in the service to the fatherland, I want to urge you to give your best to the development of this country wherever you find yourselves and continue to work relentlessly towards achieving the unity and integration of Nigeria, which the NYSC was established to promote.

“We will not relent in improving your welfare. This is part of the reasons you have been enrolled on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),” he told them. “I want you to reciprocate the kind gesture and welcome development from the government and contribute your quota at your various places of primary assignment and host communities.”