No corp member is under compulsion to serve in the North-east-NYSC DG

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Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi on Saturday said no corps member is under compulsion to serve in the North-eastern part of the country.
Olawumi also said that the few corps members serving in the area opted to do so on their own volition and that they cut across people from all parts of the country.
“I salute those who choose to go there (Northeast) for their service. Corp members are not forced to go there, the few number we have now are those who opted to go there and they cut across the whole country,” he said.
The director general made the remark while answering questions from newsmen during the closing ceremony of the scheme’s maiden edition of a one week Preparatory Course for State Coordinators Course 1 (PCSC 1/15) for assistant directors held at the Nigerian School of Military Engineering (NASME) barrack in Makurdi.
He expressed satisfaction that despite the risk taken by corps members to serve in insecure environments, there had not been any casualty among them. He added that the scheme goes the extra mile to monitor and ensure corps members safety in the area.
Also speaking, the Benue State Coordinator of NYSC,  Mrs. Esther Atamewan, said at least 5000 corps members would be expected in the state as from tomorrow even as she urged the general public to adequately cooperate with them as they move from one part of the country to another.

Culled from Daily Trust