The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has said that any corps members caught smoking Indian hemp would be dismissed.

Ibrahim stated this while addressing Batch B Stream 2 corps members undergoing orientation at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, on Friday.

The director-general noted that if anyone was caught breaking the rules or abusing drugs and substances, such corps member would be handed over to the police and dismissed for good.

He also urged the corps members to take advantage of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme put in place by the NYSC to empower the youth develop the entrepreneurship skills to make them self-reliant.

He said the Bank of Industry and the CBN were ready to provide incentives in form of short loans to aid corps members’ commercial drive.

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