NTAC DG tasks volunteers on greater impact in Sierra Leone
Yusuf Yakub, the director-general of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), has charged the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) volunteers in Sierra Leone to aim higher and make a greater impact like their predecessors.
Mr Yakub gave the charge on Tuesday in Abuja during the deployment exercise for the 13 TAC volunteers billed for Sierra Leone, to serve the country and humanity under the TAC scheme.
He said the scheme has been active under President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s 4-Ds foreign policy, initiated in 2023.
The volunteers are medical experts, including a radiation oncologist who specialises in cancer treatment.
Mr Yakub said the corps has deployed over 1,500 volunteers to African countries, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) over time.
He reminded the volunteers that they are following in the footsteps of over 12,000 Nigerian experts who served in over 40 countries over the last 39 years and made great impacts.
According to him, some of those experts are now vice-chancellors, deputy vice-chancellors, and faculty deans abroad.
The DG, therefore, admonished the Sierra Leone-bound volunteers to live up to the demands of the TAC Scheme and the records set by past participants.
The volunteers pledged to do their best as ambassadors of Nigeria in their country of service.
They also thanked the federal government for finding them worthy to participate in the two-year programme aimed at promoting South-South cooperation among the ACP countries.
(NAN)
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