‘Don’t post southern corps members to North’
The Conference of Southern Nigeria
Elders and Leaders has urged the National Youth Service Corps to stop
posting corps members from the South to troubled states in the North.
In a communiqué in Uyo on Thursday, the
conference said the escalation of threats to lives and property in the
North by the Boko Haram sect had resulted in increased killing of
Christians and other southerners.
It said in view of the above, posting of its corps members to the crisis-prone North should be suspended by the NYSC.
The communique read in part, “That until
the security situation in volatile and life threatening areas of the
country improves, we insist that none of our youth should be posted to
serve the compulsory one year national service in any part of these
volatile and life threatening areas in the North.
“That the President should not hesitate to
rid his government and the nation’s security forces of all persons of
dubious loyalty and to treat the activities of the sect as treason and
apply the relevant laws on the culprits and their sponsors.
“That President Goodluck Jonathan and all
organs of government, especially the judiciary, should demonstrably and
firmly prosecute the war against corruption without fear or favour, with
no sacred cow(s) spared, to serve as deterrent to others.”
