NYSC evacuees redeployed to South-West states

NYSC evacuees redeployed to South-West states
By Leke Baiyewu
Sunday, 28 Aug 2011

Forty-six members of the National Youth Service Corps from Ogun State that were evacuated from Bauchi State following the post-election violence have been redeployed to some South-West states.
The state NYSC Coordinator, Mr. Olayide Adeniran, told SUNDAY PUNCH that 46 of the affected NYSC members who received their letters of redeployment last week were reposted to various places of their primary assignment.
He said, “The national directorate of the NYSC has been on top of the situation since the occurrence. The corps members had a delay in their redeployment process due to misinformation.”
The Ogun State government, just like other southern states, had ordered the evacuation of its indigenes from Bauchi State, shortly after the April general elections, following a post-election crisis that left 10 corps members dead and several others injured.
No fewer than 150 corps members were brought into Abeokuta, the state capital, on April 25, 2011.
The then Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Olukoya Adeleke-Adedoyin, however, said about 400 corps members were reportedly trapped in Bauchi and that some of them had found their way home, leaving 150 others for the state to rescue.
One of the evacuees, who pleaded anonymity, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the 46 redeployed corps members were those in Batch ‘A’ only and that those in the Batch ‘C’were excluded.