By Saheed Ibrahim

The new Coordinator for Ondo State National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Sam Amaramiro Pepple has called on relevant stakeholders in the state to support the scheme.

Assessing the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko, which is among the oldest in the country, he said the edifice must be rehabilitated, maintained and made homely.

The assessment visit was to consolidate the preparation for the 2024 Batch ‘A’ (Stream II) orientation course slated for the coming weeks.

While appreciating his predecessor, Mrs Victoria Ani, Pepple said that the increasing population of Corps members in the state necessitated the call for support.

“Ondo, one of the oldest states carved out of the Western Region of old deserves to have more structures and facilities that will contain the ever-growing corps population that we have been having in recent years”.

“For those who are conversant with the system in some foreign countries, they preserve and cherish their old monuments as national pride and I am calling on people of means to collaborate with us to develop this camp to the enviable status that we shall all be proud of and want to be identified with now and in the future”.

He continued, ‘From what I have seen today, the hostel accommodation is inadequate for prospective corps members as well as staff quarters. Kudos to my predecessors for bracing all odds to make this place habitable but we can improve on the amenities if we have collaboration’.

At a call on the Divisional Police Officer of Ikare-Akoko, Superintendent of Police Mustapha Bolaji Hakeem, Pepple called for more synergy for the safety of prospective Corps members coming to Ondo State.