Oyo State government has offered subsided transportation for corps members from the permanent orientation camp to their respective Local Government Areas (LGAs) of posting.
At the closing parade of the three-week orientation for 2023 Batch B Stream I held at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Iseyin, Governor Seyi Makinde said that he was briefed by the officials that the corps members had already contributed to mobilising commercial buses that would convey them to their various LGAs of posting, adding that the palliative would ease the burden of transportation linked to the current economics realities.
The announcement threw the corps members into jubilation.
Represented by the Deputy Governor, Mr. Bayo Lawal, the governor assured the corps members that their transport fares would be reimbursed by their respective Local government authorities.
He urged the corps members to live as change agents in their host communities, saying the country needed their solution-driven ideas and innovations to scale through the current economic challenge rocking the nation.
The state NYSC Coordinator, Mr. Abel Oche tasked corps employers to be committed to the welfare and development of corps members posted to their establishment to maximize their potential.
Over 2,000 corps members who attended the orientation received letters of posting to their respective places of primary assignment for the one-year mandatory national service.
