The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello, has tasked Corps members serving in the FCT to embark on sensitization programmes to educate the electorates within the territory on the criminality of vote buying and selling of votes.
Speaking today at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘C’ stream 1 corps members in Abuja, he urged them to be apolitical and none partisan in all ramifications as their participation in the election should be in line with the objective of the collaboration between the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as well as other security agencies to ensure a peaceful, free, fair and credible election.
“As you are all aware, the political landscape is agog. In the months ahead, a lot of political aggrandizement will evolve with various political parties seeking ascendancy into elective offices in the FCT and the nation.
“You are expected to be apolitical and none partisan in all ramifications. Your participation must always reflect that of the umpire by virtue of NYSC collaboration with INEC and all security agencies for peaceful conduct of all political campaigns and by implication, a free, fair and credible election in 2019.
“I charge you to embark on a sensitization spree to intimate the electorates within the FCT on the criminality of vote buying and selling of votes. Educate them also on the need to always defend their votes, and to vote their conscience at all times,” he said.
Represented by the Director, Finance and Administration, FCT Social Development Secretariat, Hajia Salia Umar, he advised the corps members always to reflect on the various exposures of the SAED programme, identify a particular trade, focus on it and remain committed to it so that they will not join the queue of job seekers rather become job givers.
On his part, FCT Coordinator of the NYSC, Mr Bello Ballama, congratulated the corps members for their well-behaved conduct during the orientation period, hence urged them to brace up for the task ahead their service year as “it is quite enormous.”
“I urge you to wear the ambiance of an indisputable vanguard in the fight against criminality and corruption and ensure you contribute meaningfully to the ‘Change Project of the federal government. You must replicate the very level of patriotism and indiscipline at your various places of assignments.
“ More so, bear I mind that the NYSC and the FCTA has an intrinsic reward system for hard work and excellence, and reorder your choices to leverage the integrity and status advancement drive,” he said.
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