NYSC Excludes Corps Members From Rivers Supplementary Elections
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has exempted its corps members from the upcoming supplementary elections in Etche and parts of Omuma Local Government Areas of Rivers State.
The was according to the Rivers State NYSC Coordinator, Omotayo Adewoye, who made the disclosure during a stakeholders meeting at the State’s Police Command in Port Harcourt.
The decision, according to Omotayo, was reached by the organization to avoid any casualties on its members as seen with previous violent elections in the state.
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“Remember a partnership agreement was signed between INEC and the NYSC.
“Now, when we were called upon to feature in this election I had to contact my boss, the Director-General of NYSC and the advice I have received is that because of the violence that was recorded during the last election in which case our corps members were at the receiving end of assault from their politicians, we may not be able to vouch for their security this time around.
“I have the letter already on table indicating interested corps members that want to participate in the election because some of them have shown interest.
“Therefore, we have advised them to go for the training but we are not going to release our corps members except we get an approval from the DG.
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“However, any corps member who enrolls himself for the election without approval from the authorities is on his own,” Omotayo said.
