NYSC Confirms Attack On 17 Newly Discharged Corps Members Along Abuja-Kaduna Road, One Killed

Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits have attacked 17 newly discharged members of the National Youth Service Corps.

One of the ex-corps members, Bomoi Suleiman Yusuf, was shot dead by the hoodlums.

The ex-corps members were said to have completed their one year mandatory service to their fatherland in Osun State and were traveling to their families in the northern parts of the country when the incident happened.

The management of the National Youth Service Corps confirmed the incident but debunked a report that 16 members of the scheme were abducted.

In a statement issued on its official Twitter handle, the NYSC said an attack did happen and was carried out by armed robbers against 17 ex-corps members who just completed the scheme in Osun State.

The statement read, “The true position is that, indeed, 17 corps members that completed the 2020 Batch “B” Stream 1B Orientation programme at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ede, Osun State, on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, boarded vehicles heading towards the northern part of the country.

“Tragically, along Jere-Abuja Expressway, they were accosted by a gang of armed robbers whose gunshots unfortunately felled a corps member, Bomoi Suleiman Yusuf.

“It is imperative to state that the 16 other corps members were never abducted.

“The death of any corps member is a big loss, not just to his family, but to the scheme and the entire nation at large.”