NYSC rules out postings to volatile areas

 For the umpteenth time, the Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia has restated the service position not to post corps members to volatile areas.

Gen. Okore-Affia, who said that the scheme has a mandate to post corps members to every part of the country as enunciated by the law establishing it, however, regretted that events have made the scheme to change its position.

Speaking in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, when he visited Governor Theodore Orji, the NYSC chief said the service view the lives of corps members as very important to the country and their parents, therefore the scheme is not in a position to expose them to danger.

Gen. Okore-Affia said his mission in the Southeast was to thank the governor for the numerous supports he has given to the state NYSC camp in the state and for the adequate security being given to corps members deployed to the state.

The NYCS chief praised the state for the state-of-the-art NYSC Orientation Camp in the state and other things Orji’s  administration has done for the scheme.

Orji urged the NYSC chief to bring his wealth of experience to bear in transforming the scheme, stressing that the entire nation is looking up to him to change the focus of the scheme that has brought pride to the country.