…DG vows to reposition agency for broader, better relevance
The Director- General of the Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Yusuf Buba Yakub, on Tuesday promised to reposition the agency for better and broader relevance in the affairs of the country.
Yakub made the declaration during the pre-departure programme for the volunteers who are mainly teachers.
No fewer than 16 Nigerian teachers will be departing for Liberia under the country’s volunteer scheme.
The 16 teachers who will be departing the shores of Nigeria on Friday are going under the Technical Aid Corps and at the request of the Liberian government.
Yakub stressed the need to sustain the programme which he said has been helpful in international diplomacy.
Yakub said, “We have an agenda and we are going to pursue it. We will reorganise and energise DTAC and as you have seen this morning, we are deploying volunteers to Liberia.
“It is an instrument of soft power diplomacy where we deliver services to humanity through deploying professionals as volunteers to Africa Caribbean and the Pacific nations.
“So, I want to assure Nigerians that the DTAC will henceforth continue to deploy Nigerians to these countries, to make sure that Nigeria occupy her place of leadership among the comity of nations.”
He also hinted that another batch of volunteers will be deployed in the next two weeks.
As according to him, there are lots of request on the table from African, Carribean and Pacific countries asking for volunteers from Nigeria.
On the teachers deployed to Liberia, he said they were picked after a rigorous and painstaking processes.
The DG therefore congratulated all the volunteers, charging them to be good ambassadors of the country.
He also charged the volunteers to show great commitment and patriotism in their conducts.
He added, “stick, therefore with all you have been told and you will never put a foot wrong.”
