The Director General of Nigerian Youth Service Corp, NYSC, Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed has said that members of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC are reserved to fight war .
The DG made this known in a video obtained by the CHANNELS TV on Saturday.
According to him, the training already inculcated in the corp members along with some basic military training which would not exceed 3 to 4 months for them would make them become fully trained professional soldiers.
He said since these ladies and men are given an orientation by the military, and their training programs are nothing less than military outlines, therefore, they are reserved soldiers should there be any outbreak of war,
He maintained. “Corp members are part and parcel of the National Defense Policy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”, whenever there’s serious war, we are going to mobilize the literate ones and give substantial military engagement training for effective combat results.
In his testimony, Gen. Musa explained how proliferous the Corp members are in terms of adapting to training in the camp within 2 weeks. Because of the foregoing, the female corp members can now blow military giggle and bands; even the majority displayed enormous professionalism during the conduct of drills and other military-related activities, so, it will take the nation little resources to remould them against what we usually spend on crude recruits.
