‘We won’t post corps members to employers without accommodation’ – NYSC

 

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)has said that the challenges faced by corps members to secure decent and well-fortified accommodation in their various places of primary assignment has informed the decision by NYSC not to post corps members to such employers again.

Its Ondo state Coordinator, Mrs Grace Akpabio reiterated that henceforth, any corps employers or local Government Councils without well-secured accommodation would be blacklisted”

She spoke at the palace of Oba Batuga Akintoye, the Jegun of Idepe in Okitipupa Local Government area.

The State Coordinator was at the palace to express her displeasure over the attack on some corps members at their residence in Okitipupa.

She said”your royal highness, it is callous and wickedness on the part of some good for nothing individuals to inflict pains and psychological trauma on corps members who left their respective families and loved ones to come over to Ondo State to serve their fatherland only to be rewarded with such inhuman treatment.

“Kabiyesi, some corps members in order to deliver effective service delivery to the host community rented a building which were broken into by miscreants in the society who dispossessed them of their valuables at gun point and went ahead to molest them

” I am here on the order of the Director General NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim to inform the monarch and all the corps employers in Okitipupa Local Government that NYSC management has resolved to post corps members to only places where their security are guaranteed with good accommodation”.

“It is most unfortunate that when the incident occurred, the NYSC Local Government Inspector informed the Local Government Council of the dastardly act but up till this present time of my visit to assess the situation, the Local Government authorities has not deemed it fit to sympathise with the affected corps members.

“These are our children and the onus lies on us to provide conducive accommodation for them and at the same time ensure that their lives are adequately protected”.

Oba Akintoye expressed shock over the incident and appealed to the State Coordinator to allow him take over the matter with the stakeholders and security agencies within the Council area.

The monarch, on behalf of the indigenes and settlers of the town promised that appropriate steps would be taken to forestall future occurrence.

The Jegun of Idepe used the opportunity provided by the visit to call on corps members to report to the palace or security agencies in the town any suspicious movement or activity within their environment.

At the Divisional Police Headquarters in the town,the State Coordinator, Mrs. Grace Akpabio passionately appeal the Police to intensify surveillance and routine inspection to corps lodges across the Local Government.

Mrs. Akpabio called on all stakeholders especially the security agencies to do everything within the ambit of the law to fish out the hoodlums who perpetrated this heinous crime against humanity.