The National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) ex-corps members of Batch-A 2019 in Ogun State made history on Thursday by donating already saved allowee to purchasing palliatives while dispersing themselves across states within the country despite the inter-state border closure with the purpose of helping and sensitizing the poorest of the poor amidst the Lockdown.
The Batch-A ex-corps members, FREEDOM BROTHERS as fondly called had in 2019 camped in Sagamu, the state NYSC camp and had partly benefited from the 33k allowance increment in February and March 2020 which came after the N19,800 before their successful pass out.
The palliatives under distribution across states in Nigeria include baskets of rice, beans, litres of ground oil, sachets of tomatoes, breads among many others having numerous families as benefiaries of this selfless effort.These paliatives amidst all odds ranging from restriction of movement to logistics and cashless savings were tangibly delivered by voluntary members with Bello Abiola who coordinated for Oshodi Isolo of Lagos State, Teniola Olubolade for Olorunda L.G area of Osun State, Muhammad Hassan for Kumbotso L.G area of Kano State, Abide Matthew for Lokoja L.G. area of Kogi State and a host of other volunteers in Delta, Ebonyin, Abuja and other neighbouring states.
This project was targeted towards sensitizing the people about Covid-19 and the policies put in place to curb its spread which include frequent Washing of hands, where of face mask, avoid social gathering among many other measures.
Speaking on how they were able to put all these efforts together regardless of the situations in the country, Mr. Adeoti Sunday (OG/19A/2390), the initiator of this idea said “It was not really easy bringing this up at this time of lack when most of us have no job at hand and are almost exhausting our savings due to the stay at home policy but all glory to God for the success and collective efforts from my then hostel mates #Freedom-Hostel now partners”.
When approached, The Treasure for this move, Mr. Oyedokun Kazeem told GbosGistBlog reporter that he saw selflessness in the vision and in accordance with what the NYSC scheme has taught them during their year of service, decided to dive into the idea and then ” we started making moves with Mr.Sunday to get it achieved and here we are” adding that most of the cash donations and contributions were done online and sent to accounts of representatives with their team withdrawing it at the various benefiting states for the execution of this selfless project.
Mr. Oriretan Honour in charge of publicity said “we have finished serving our father’s land, now we chose to serve our mother’s land with this move”
From interviews gathered, beneficiaries of this initiative from different states thanked the the ex-corps members through their various representatives for the kind gesture. Others expressed their profound gratitude to the NYSC scheme for bringing Youths of this kind together and breeding them to help develop the society in their own little way.
While some complained of been denied partitive from state and federal government living them with intense hunger, others appeal to ‘well-to-do-individuals’ and Nigeria government to come to their aid as most of them living in a very local interior communities are unmercifully left without means of survival as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown policy currently on going.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari and other state governors have pleaded to Organizations, NGOs, Religious Leaders, Traditional Rulers and Individuals in the country and various states to lend a hand of help to those around them in this time of difficulties.
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