The directorate of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, yesterday recalled prospective corps members of southern origin posted to crisis-prone states in the North for the three-week orientation programme.
A press statement signed by the Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia, indicated that those posted to Yobe State will now hold their orientation course at the Nasarawa State NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Keffi, while those posted to Borno State should report in the Benue State NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp at Wanume, Tarka LGA.
Okore-Affia added: “In addition, all 2012 Batch ‘B’ prospective corps members deployed to Bauchi, Gombe, Plateau, Kano and Kaduna states who have collected their call-up letters but are yet to report in camp should immediately report at the NYSC Directorate Head-quarters, Abuja, for rede-ployment.”
Orientation course for the affected corps members will now commence on July 26 through August 16, 2012.
It will be recalled that parents and guardians of prospective corps members had over the last four days been totally opposed to their wards reporting at the orientation camps in the volatile states for fear that terrorists might attack the camps.