Corps Members Thrill Agriculture Ministry With Renovation Project

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By UbongAbasi Ise

The management staff of Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sufficiency could not hide their delight penultimate Monday as the 2017/2018 Batch A and B corps members came together to give the ministry’s Conference Room a facelift.
The members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the ministry repainted the walls and doors of the conference room, fixed windows, hanged up new blinds, and install new fluoresce bulbs for adequate lightning.   
As the project was officially commissioned at Idongesit Nkanga’s Secretariat in Uyo, Dr. Charles Uduak Udo-Inyang, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Sufficiency, who was represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. John A. Markson, lauded the corps members for identifying the gap in the ministry and stood up according to Dakadda philosophy of the state government.
 “This is small but a significant ceremony. Several times in life we meet gaps in society we found ourselves.  Today, corps members have seen the gap and decided not to close their eyes, but stood up according to Dakadda philosophy of the state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel,” the commissioner said.
He commended the corps members for large heart of giving, while describing the project as the beautiful sacrifice.
Udo-Inyang called on the corps members to seek opportunities in agriculture as it is the biggest sector all industrially-related sectors sprang up.
Speaking amongst others, Mr. Obot Obot, the Director of Veterinary Services in the ministry, told the corps members that unlike in the past in Nigeria when offer of employment and award of scholarship to study abroad were made readily available for graduates after leaving school, the present era tends to be all about entrepreneurship and self-employment, while urging the corps members to emulate their counterparts who were able to turn waste into wealth.
In his address, the Corps liaison officer, Mr. Chukwunonso Okafor, said the Batch A and B corps members in the Agriculture Ministry were feeling the need to leave a mark as they chose to take up the renovation of the conference room.
“We the Batch A/B 2017 NYSC Corps Member who were posted to this Ministry felt the need to leave a mark in the Ministry. There was so much to do but we choose to renovate the conference room and give it a facelift basically because it is used as a worship centre for God as well as all the important meetings thus making it the image of this Ministry. So far a lot of energy/finances have been committed into this project and Corps Members have worked tirelessly. We repainted the walls/doors fixed the windows and replaced the lighting. We also fixed curtains on the windows to make the room attractive and confidential,” he said.
Okafor lauded the staff of the ministry for providing corps members with good working environment while entreating them to extend the gesture to the next batch of corps members.
“We have had a free environment to work and the staff of the Ministry has been very co-operative and accommodating, we wish that the next batch of NYSC Corps Members should take a cue from us and appeal that the Management should give them equal co-operation,” said the CLO.

Source: The Sensor Newspaper

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