Coordinator wants more facilities at NYSC camp
The Kwara NYSC coordinator, Mr Olanrewaju Ologun, has appealed to the state government to build more hostels at the state's permanent orientation camp.
Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Ologun said that this was necessary due to the rising number of corps members deployed to the state each year.
According to him, the administration of Gov. Bukola Saraki had assisted the NYSC in many areas and more still needed to be done.
He explained that this assistance was particularly needed at the Yikpata village camp in Edu local government area of the state.
He said that there were only seven hostels in the camp, which was established as a youth camp in 1976.
``This is not adequate for the about 2,000 corps members. Some of them used to sleep outside when the hostels are filled,'' he said.
Ologun commended Saraki for renovating six of the hostels and for building and inaugurating the seventh in 2006.
He also thanked the governor for donating 300 plastic chairs and 33 dining sets made up of pieces of long tables and benches in 2006.
He said that the governor also renovated the NYSC administrative block, built a guest pavilion and provided four water bore holes for the camp.
Ologun, however, said that subsisting facility problems included the lack of perimeter fencing, pipe borne water, inadequate electricity supply, drugs, staff chalets, street lamps and the lack of a powerful stand by electricity generator.
A visit to the camp by NAN showed that it has seven hostels and 16 staff chalets of two and three bedroom each.
It also has one auditorium, a guest pavilion, one dining hall with kitchen, one clinic, four water bore holes, a Man-O-War ground and a sports field.
In another development, the Zamfara state government has concluded arrangements to establish a permanent NYSC orientation camp in Tsafe, headquarters of Tsafe local government.
The state NYSC coordinator, Alhaji Bashir Yakasai, told NAN in Gusau, that the government had already collected the plan for the camp.
``The state government is really willing to do something about the orientation camp since they have now collected the plan for the camp," he said.
He said that the state government constructed 30 pre-fabricated classrooms last year at the temporary camp in Government Secondary School, Tsafe, to help de-congest the hostels.
Yakasai said the new classrooms had comfortably accommodated all female corps members deployed