The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, opens its camps nationwide today to Batch B 2012 corps members.
The three weeks orientation course/ camp activities may witness a low turnout of intending corp members as most prospective corps members posted to troubled states across the country there have vowed not to go.
Corps members and their families who expressed their worries on various social network sites including Facebook and Twitter, said they were extremely sad and disappointed when they received their call-up letters, deploying them to trouble states where there is currently curfew, threats of reprisals and bombings.
Some of the comments on the social network sites read, “We need to arise and stop the government from sentencing us and our loved ones to death. Is our government/NYSC this heartless or simply inhumane? We seek our immediate redeployment, we want to live in places where we can work with peace of mind.’’
In his reaction, the NYSC Director- General, Brig-Gen Nnamdi Okore-Affa has said, “Nigeria has 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. By our mandate, we must post corps members to all states.
“However, because some areas have been described as volatile, what we will do is to reduce the number of corps member sent to such states. They will be posted to areas where their security will be guaranteed.
“The truth is that each state deserves corps members. We will not deliberately send corps members to violence-prone areas, but we will send to at least state capitals.
, but the youth are having reservations and are reluctant to answer the call to serve in some parts of the country.