No fewer than 1,737 2021 Batch ‘A’ stream ll National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to Kano State have staged a walk to support the Nigeria’s Unity.
The walk was staged on Saturday at the NYSC orientation camp Kusallah,in Karaye Local Government Area, during the Corps members’ cultural display.
Speaking during the event, the NYSC Coordinator in Kano, Hajiya Aisha Tata-Mohammed said the unity match and cultural carnival was special to mark the 48 years of the scheme.
“There is no doubt that the legacy of our founding fathers for a united and indivisible country is paying off with NYSC at the front, and irrespective of the daunting challenges facing our country.
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“NYSC is now 48 years old, and every Nigerian shared in that pride and in the success recorded by the scheme in the areas of brotherhood entrenchment, national development and integration.
“The essence of the NYSC carnival today, is to leverage on our traditions to showcase different cultural identities while appreciating our diversity as our strength.
“We shall prevail because we chose to move forward as one indivisible nation and one people.
“The unity match is a new programme well-packaged by the courage of our convictions that together we share the optimism of an NYSC scheme that triumphed over challenges, and shall continue to do so despite misconceptions or criticisms in some quarters.
“Those critics are wrong, and the NYSC will come out of it soonest, no ifs or buts. The Sterling achievements of the NYSC programme, no doubt, over shadow any negative assumptions from some individuals calling for its scrap.
“I wish to remind everyone that, apart from national cohesion and community development, NYSC also offers corps members an extra ordinary chance to skill themselves in various SAED sectors.” She reminded.
Tata-Mohammed further charged the corps members to utilise all the opportunities giving to them by the scheme for themselves and for the development of the country.
She added that the unity of purpose with which they were prepared today, speaks volumes of oneness, cohesion and brotherhood amongst all tribes of this nation.
“And it is the same unity that would make you succeed and keep our nation intact, despite the feeble attempt by some gloomsters to open door of divisions.” She said.
Some of the Corps members in an interview with NAN assured their readiness to stay in Kano for their one year service without seeking for redeployment to their respective states.
Nvarie Eruchi-Glory, a female corps member from Rivers State said she has come to Kano to stay, as unity was one of the major purposes for the establishment of the NYSC scheme.
“I have never been to the North, this is my firat time of coming, and I assured you as part of efforts to ensure unity among Nigerians, I have plans not to redeploy to anywhere.” Moses Oluwaseun from Osun.
Maryam Tajuddeen from Kano said she mate new friends from various part of the country, and pledged to sustain the relationship for the betterment of Nigeria.
At the end of the carnival, platum number 10 was declared winner, platum number nine second position while third position went to the platum three.
