The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has deployed 2, 500 corps members to Kaduna State for the 2015 Batch B orientation course.
Mr Mohammed Momoh, the state’s NYSC Coordinator, made this known on Tuesday at a news conference in Kaduna.
He said the orientation would begin on Oct. 28, adding that with the security situation in the North East, corps members posted to Gombe State would make use of the orientation camp in Kaduna State before redeploying to their state of posting.
Momoh noted that “the orientation will be in two streams with Kaduna taking the first stream from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17, while Gombe will take the second from Nov. 25 to Dec. 15.
“Redeployment will only be on marital and health issues,” he added.
On the ban on nursing mothers and pregnant women from camp, the coordinator said he had been directed to attend to them in order not to jeopardise the wellbeing of the children.
“Since there are no facilities for children and pregnant women, they will register and go home until the orientation is over and their posting is ready for collection.”
He said skill acquisition and entrepreneurial programmes had been arranged for members to be self-reliant after their service year.
He called for the support and cooperation of the people in the state to ensure that corp members were directed to the orientation camp.
