The majority of the total number of 2,405 Batch 'A' corps members under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posted to Kwara State this year will have their primary assignment in rural communities of the state.

Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony of the corps members at the NYSC permanent orientation camp, Yikpata, Edu Local Government Area on Thursday, the state coordinator of the scheme, Ezinne Ngozi Ezekwe, said the idea was in pursuit of transformation agenda of the present government.

Ezinne Ezekwe, who said the corps members would be found useful in rural health care delivery, primary education, rural infrastructural development and agricultural development, added that the programme would also help to address the critical manpower need in the four sectors.

She, therefore, solicited the cooperation and support of the state government and other stakeholders in making the policy work for the good of the people, especially the rural dwellers.

As a step towards shapening the potentials of the corps members, Ezinne Ezekwe also said that the corps members would be trained in vocational skills such as fashion design/tie and dye; confectionaries making/bakery; soap and cosmetic making; beads/hat making; phone and computer repair; barbing and hair dressing as well as agro-allied skills, including poultry keeping, fish farming, animal husbandry, bee keeping, rearing of snails/rabbits and grass cutters among others.

She said each of the corps members was to make a choice among the array of skill vocations with a view to tackling the challenge of post-service unemployment in the country.

The NYSC state coordinator also called on the state government to make a special case for corps members' security in the State Security Council, adding that apart from providing security for corps members at their places of primary assignment, the need to beef up security around the orientation camp, especially during the ongoing orientation course could not be wished away.

"Our anxiety is heightened by the porosity of the camp largely due to lack of perimetre fence. Therefore, possible joint patrol around the camp by all the security agencies will ensure the safety of all course participants", she said.

It was also noted that a total number of 2405 corps members, comprising 1,265 males and 1,140 females were deployed to Kwara State.