NYSC Reassures Members’ Maximum Security During Elections

On the forthcoming general elections, NYSC had engaged INEC and informed them that corps members should not be posted to volatile areas.

Kaduna State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Mr Agbor Obim, on Saturday reassured corps members that their security was paramount to the statutory duties of the scheme and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Obim gave the assurance in Kaduna while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of a cultural carnival by corps members of 2023 Batch ‘A’ Stream ‘1’, at temporary Orientation Camp, Kurmin Mashi.

Commenting on the forthcoming general elections, he said NYSC had engaged INEC and informed them that corps members should not be posted to volatile areas.

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“Security should not only be paramount to us, but also to the electoral body,” Obim said.
The coordinator warned the corps members to eschew partisan politics.

He said that as the general elections moved closer where the corps members would be used as ad-hoc staff, they must be neutral and impartial.

Obim urged them to carry out the election duties in line with the electoral acts.

“If any of them is found wanting, the law would surely take its course; therefore, we advise them to carry out their duties with all sense of responsibilities,” he said.

He, however, said that the corps members had been trained thoroughly for the tasks, noting that life was delicate.

“If any politician wants to create problems for them, we have advised them to hand over all the electoral materials to them, because their lives matter first to us,” Obim told NAN.