The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has tasked pregnant corps members to be dedicated in serving the nation, saying pregnancy is not a disease.

Kogi NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Mofoluwaso Williams, gave the charged on Wednesday at the Kogi Annual 2023 Corps Employers Workshop held at the Government House, Lokoja, titled: “Tackling emerging Challenges in Corps Administration through NYSC/Stakeholders”.

The coordinator urged employers and organisations not to allow corps members to use pregnancy as cover up in any form not to perform their civic responsibilities to the country.

She said, “every workplace has its own peculiar challenges, so is our various places of primary assignments where corps members are engaged for the one year mandatory service to their fatherland.

“Pregnancy is not a disease, therefore organisations should not allow corps members to use this as alibi in any form.

“Pregnant/nursing corps members who use pregnancy as alibi for absenteeism or rudeness to officers should not be tolerated.”

Williams said she was aware that employers have such challenges which include: absenteeism, laziness, rudeness and absconding.

“We also have lazy corps members who are not ready to work but wants to be paid for job not done or those who are not ready to do anything extra for the organisation.

“There are also “toxic corps members,” who never see anything good in any other person except themselves. Such have anger issues and fight both their colleagues and other staff.”