(news) NYSC defies calls to cancel postings to troubled North
The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the National Youth
Service Corps to cancel the posting of corps members sent to the states
that have security challenges.
The House further requested the NYSC to redeploy the affected corps members in relatively safe places until the security challenges in the affected states are resolved.
The new corps members and their parents had protested the posting to some northern states where there had been reported cases of bombing and other violent acts. The states include Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi and Plateau.
But the NYSC had insisted that the corps members would not be reposted except they first reported at their original states of posting.
In a statement by the NYSC Director of Public Relations, Mrs. Abosede Aderibigbe, on Tuesday, the directorate said it had empowered state coordinators to attend to requests for redeployment, adding that the NYSC guidelines said that corps members could only be redeployed on marital or health grounds.
The statement reads, “This is to inform all 2012 Batch ‘B’ corps members and the general public that state governments and the NYSC operators have put in place measures to guarantee the security to lives and property of corps members deployed to camps for the ongoing orientation course.
“Prospective corps members should therefore proceed to their respective camps for induction into the noble scheme.
“However, those who have genuine reasons to seek for relocation out of their states of posting, should register first in their states of deployment and then submit application there for consideration.
“The two grounds for consideration remain marital (for those who are married) and health (for those with extreme medical ailments)
“Please note that no request for change of posting to deployed states will be attended to at the Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, as state coordinators have been empowered to attend to Relocation Requests in their states.”
NYSC a timebomb waiting to explode, a country with heartless and insensitive leaders.
The House further requested the NYSC to redeploy the affected corps members in relatively safe places until the security challenges in the affected states are resolved.
The new corps members and their parents had protested the posting to some northern states where there had been reported cases of bombing and other violent acts. The states include Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi and Plateau.
But the NYSC had insisted that the corps members would not be reposted except they first reported at their original states of posting.
In a statement by the NYSC Director of Public Relations, Mrs. Abosede Aderibigbe, on Tuesday, the directorate said it had empowered state coordinators to attend to requests for redeployment, adding that the NYSC guidelines said that corps members could only be redeployed on marital or health grounds.
The statement reads, “This is to inform all 2012 Batch ‘B’ corps members and the general public that state governments and the NYSC operators have put in place measures to guarantee the security to lives and property of corps members deployed to camps for the ongoing orientation course.
“Prospective corps members should therefore proceed to their respective camps for induction into the noble scheme.
“However, those who have genuine reasons to seek for relocation out of their states of posting, should register first in their states of deployment and then submit application there for consideration.
“The two grounds for consideration remain marital (for those who are married) and health (for those with extreme medical ailments)
“Please note that no request for change of posting to deployed states will be attended to at the Directorate Headquarters, Abuja, as state coordinators have been empowered to attend to Relocation Requests in their states.”
NYSC a timebomb waiting to explode, a country with heartless and insensitive leaders.
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