The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has reiterated that corps members are forbidden from showing partisan interest in politics.
According to NAN, Eddy Megwa, the scheme’s press director, issued a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
Megwa was reacting to a campaign poster making the rounds on social media.
The poster showed some ladies in NYSC uniform purporting to be corps members and endorsing one of the political parties in Nigeria.
Megwa said that the message encapsulated in the poster was against the policy of the scheme which forbade corps members from showing interest in partisan politics.
“It is a direct assault on the integrity of the NYSC,” the director said.
“[NYSC] is among the electoral umpires and has been in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of elections in Nigeria since 2008.
“Management hereby restates that the scheme remains apolitical, and neutral without any form of attachment to any political party.
“The stand of the scheme runs absolutely contrary to the message fraudulently conveyed by the poster.”
Megwa reminded members of the public that section 14 of the NYSC Act made it an offence for someone who is not a corps member to wear the NYSC uniform.
According to him, such a person is liable on conviction to six months imprisonment and/or a fine if found guilty.
He urged members of the public to discountenance the information contained in the aforementioned poster.
The director admonished corps members to abide by the policy of the scheme that forbade them from showing interest in partisan politics.
