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.
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012
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