Training begins on July 13, 2014, in the various sub-divisional headquarters and the Police School in Mutengene.
Two lists of volunteers and conscripts from the South West Region have been validated to undergo training under the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development (NCSAPD). The final lists to be established by the NCSAPD in Yaounde will enroll volunteers for a six-month training period in the various Sub-divisions. Meanwhile the conscripts shall be gathered and trained at the Mutengene National Police School campus.
The selection exercise chaired by the Governor’s representative, Clement Fon Ndikum, at the Public Service hall in Buea, from 1 to 2 July, 2014, picked 620 volunteers and 400 conscripts for training in the days ahead. The governor’s representative explained that the young selected Cameroonians of both sexes were from the 31 Sub-divisions of the South West Region.
He presented the exercise as emanating from the June 20, 2014 Decision of the General Manager of NCSAPD setting up the various teams to mobilise and select volunteers as well as conscripts for training across the country. Both trainings are scheduled to begin next 13 July.
The group of 620 volunteers (20 from each Sub-division) will be trained for six months by experts from the Ministries of Youth affairs and Civic Education, Agriculture and Rural Development, Fisheries and Animal Husbandries, Sports and Physical Education. The trainees will receive courses in their places of abode related to the ideologies of the trainer ministries in addition to patriotism, entrepreneurship and civic responsibilities.
Trainees are required to provide land for income-generating activities and be willing to develop the nation through community service. The 400 conscripts, aged 17 to 21, will be handled for two months by staff from the ministries in charge of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, Defence and National Security in the campus of the Police school in Mutengene.
Esua Enow, Deputy General Manager of NCSAPD and head of mission to supervise the selection exercise in the South West Region said NCSAPD aims at contributing to moral rearmament of the youth and also equip them with technical and professional competences. On his part, Enaw Daniel Agbor, Regional Coordinator of NCSAPD for the South West, underscored the need to mobilise youth to be interested in these programmes which henceforth will be a requirement for admission into the Civil Service in Cameroon.
