Lagos Assembly rejects NYSC’s posting of Lagosians to North

IKEJA – The Lagos State House of Assembly has rejected posting of batch B of the National Youth service Corps, NYSC, members from the state to the northern part of the country for their service.

Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Wahab Alawiye-King, said this while receiving corps members from Lagos State University, LASU, who staged a demonstration to the Assembly yesterday.

According to Alawiye-King, the House at its plenary on Monday, passed a resolution to the Director General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okorie-Affiah, urging him not to post graduates from Lagos State to unsafe Northern states where security of lifes and properyt cannot be guaranteed.

He said: “Lagos State House of Assembly is a proactive lawmaking body which put the welfare of the residents first before any other thing.”

The lawmaker said the Assembly would resist any attempt by the NYSC directorate to post students from Lagos to troubled states in the North for the service year.

We Will Post You Wherever We Please In The North No Matter How Dangerous, NYSC Tells Prospective Members

As anxiety mounts over the safety of the prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who are preparing for their one year mandatory service, authorities of the scheme insist that corps members will still be deployed throughout the troubled northern States.

The NYSC said today in a statement in Abuja that state governments and the NYSC have put in place “measures to guarantee the security to lives and properties of corps members deployed to camps for the on-going orientation course.”