Nysc Declines Requests For Redeployment

NYSC rejects corps members’ request for reposting


Requests of scores of members of the National Youth Service Corps scheme, who wanted their deployment to Borno changed, were turned down by the national secretariat of the scheme yesterday in Abuja.



Most of the youth corps members came from the southern part of the country to seek redeployment to other states they considered safe.


The gates of the secretariat were locked, while an officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the national headquarters had stopped granting concessionary posting.

The source stated that postings would now be handled by state coordinators.

In a statement which expatiated on the posting, the NYSC said “in the wake of the recent post-election disturbances, the Director-General waived all due process to expedite action on relocation requests’’.

This line of action appeared to have encouraged other youth corps members from all the 36 States and the FCT to daily flood the D-G’s office seeking relocation for flimsy of reasons, the statement noted.

NYSC members wishing to be redeployed from Borno, Jigawa, Taraba, Imo and Bauchi states were attended to on Monday.

However, any corps member who declines to report at the posting state before midnight on Thursday will have to repeat his or her service year, according to the statement. (NAN)