The Federal Government has said that members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Scheme are no longer posted to states considered unsafe in the wake of worsening security situations in the country.
Several corps members had been abducted in some parts of the country during their one-year mandatory national service, raising fears about the safety of participants in the scheme, which meant for national integration.
The Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Ibrahim Bio, who disclosed this recently over the weekend, said the Scheme has taken steps to secure corps members, including posting them only to safe places of primary assignment.
“As an immediate intervention of the government and the NYSC as an agency, we have stopped posting corps members to the very unsafe states,” the Minister said on Channels Television’s current affairs programme, ‘Sunday Politics’ monitored by our correspondent in Abuja.
“We have been doing it. We have been doing it in the past. There are states we have not been posting corps members to, to ensure their safety,” she added.
According to her, the security of corps members requires collaboration with other agencies of government.
