National Youths Service Corps Member Develops an Automated Hand Washing

A member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Osun State, Mr Manpasu Mathias, has invented an automated hand-washing machine as part of efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus disease. Mathias, who hails from Uding, Hong Local Government, Adamawa State, studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola. The corps member, with state code number OS/19B/2222, said he spent two weeks on the project he initiated, but which production was funded by the NYSC. Mathias presented the machine to the NYSC State Coordinator, Mr  Ayodele Adewale Adegoke, at the NYSC State Secretariat in Osogbo, to the admiration of NYSC officials and members of the public.