The National Youth Service Corps has appealed for increased
deployment of troops in its orientation camps across the country to
protect corps members from bandits, kidnappers and other criminal
elements.
The Chairman of the NYSC Governing Council, Amb. Fatima Abubakar, made
the request at the Army Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, when she led
other members of the council on a courtesy visit to the Chief of Army
Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.
Abubakar noted that the security provided at NYSC camps by soldiers
during the #EndSARS protests, prevented the wanton destruction of
properties at the camps by hoodlums.
She said, “We appreciate the training the Nigerian Army gives the
youths. It shapes them and trains them for the tasks ahead. We are
pleading that you beef up troops at the NYSC camps because the camps
have become so large these days, not like it was at the beginning.
“In a particular camp, sometimes, you have 1,000 young men and women
during orientation and we dont have enough troops, especially because of
the growing security challenges of abductions and kidnappings.”
Attahiru in his response commended the NYSC for instilling in the
youth the attitude of patriotism and loyal service to their fatherland.
He advised the NYSC management to introduce patriotism and
entrepreneurship as subjects in their orientation programmes to enhance
national development.
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