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NYSC To Deploy Corpers For 2015 Polls

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Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Thursday said despite the deadly attacks on corps members during the 2011 election, they will be deployed for election duties across the country during the 2015 election.

He said adequate measures had been put in place to protect the lives of the corp members that would partcipate in the election.

Olawumi, who said this in Ikare-Akoko, Ondo state, at the inauguration of the Batch ‘C’ of the 2014 corps members deployed in Ondo state, said the organization had learnt from the mistakes of 2011 and would be ready to allow corp members to participate in election duties.

According to him, it is the decision of the Federal Government to deploy corps members for the exercise, saying the agreement with the Independent National Electoral Commissin over the issue still stands.

He said, “The decision for corps members to take part in election was taken by government and for the simple reason that they are well dispersed all over the nooks and crannies of the country and I want to state categorically that since corp membrrs have started taken part in elections in Nigeria, our elections have continued to gain credibility.

“The agreement between NYSC and INEC is still there and what that means is that corp members will take part in 2015 elections all over Nigeria whenever election will be held as long as there will be election, they will be part of it. However, I must state clearly that we are not sleeping, we are learning from our past mistakes, we have studied what happened in the last election and we have put measures in place for the safety and security of corp members.

“You can all recall what happened in Ekiti and in Osun, two elections that were adjudged to be very fair and corps members were particularly singled out and commended for all the roles they played in the elections, for this coming election they are eager to go but on our part we have put a lot of measures in place to guarantee their safety and security.”

The Ondo State Coordinator of NYSC, Alhaji Olanrewaju Kuoye, said 2,400 corp members were deployed in the state but 2,395 had registered as at the commencement of the ceremony.

He said the corps members were in high spirit, urging the state government to fulfill its promises of assistance over inadequate hostels and staff quarters in the orientation camp.

The Ondo state governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, congratulated the corp members for the feat and enjoined them not to allow the riggour and challenges of the orientation camp to distract them.

The governor, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, Dr. Gbenga Adelayi, said government would continue to assist the NYSC in the state to make the stay of the corp members meaningful.

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