Kwara renovates NYSC hostels

Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has renovated the hostels of the state’s National Youths Service Corps camp, barely five months after he described the facilities as unfit for human living.

The renovation came three months after his administration also supplied the facilities with 400 mattresses, 200 double-bunk beds, 100 long benches, and consumables which the government said were meant to make the camp more conducive for the corps members.

Abdulrazaq had on June 20 paid an unscheduled visit to the Yikpata (Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State) camp of the NYSC where he lamented the condition of the facilities and said they typified the deplorable state of things across the state. He however pledged to fix the facilities, especially the hostels that were an eyesore.

“We are really grateful to Mr Governor for keeping his words. I’m happy to inform you that the government has renovated three main hostels, including the two-in-one Mayflower hostel, and I don’t think there’s any NYSC camp in the country that has the kind of facilities we now have,” Kwara NYSC Coordinator Esther Ikupolati said.

Ikupolati said the camp management has decided to rename the Mayflower hostel as Harmony Hostel in honour of the Governor’s efforts.

Abdulrazaq had openly apologised to the Corps members for the condition of the facilities and said the visit was a challenge to him to do things differently.