Tsiga Takes Over Redeployment of Corps Members

Tsiga Takes Over Redeployment of Corps Members
6 July 2011

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig- Gen. Maharazu Tsiga has personally taken over the redeployment of corps members who rejected their posting to volatile states.

Tsiga, who called the corps members to the conference room at Gowon House in Abuja on Monday, said that anybody who came for redeployment would be attended to.

The batch 'B' NYSC members, who were to resume orientation camp nationwide on Tuesday had besieged the headquarters of the scheme for possible redeployment to other states.

Most of the NYSC members who were seeking for redeployment were either posted to Borno, Jigawa, Bauchi, Imo and Kaduna, among others.

Tsiga, however, asked the corps members to submit their posting letters along with their state of preference for redeployment.

"Those of you who gave me your call up earlier will have to come back at 3 pm and 4 pm today (Monday) respectively while those who had submitted earlier will have to wait for their new posting," he said.

Members of the University of Lagos Parents Forum had called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to prevail on the NYSC not to post their children to areas they described as death zones.

Tinuke Jaiyeola, a corps member, who was posted to Borno State, claimed that she came for redeployment to other state because of the fear of 'Boko Haram'.

Charles Opurul, also a corper, said that he was posted to Taraba but came for redeployment, pointing out that he was too young to die because of the volatile nature of the place.

Joy Lawrence from Edo, who was posted to Imo, equally came to seek redeployment to either Abuja or Nasarawa, saying that the security report she got from Imo was scaring.

95,000 NYSC members were mobilised for the 2011/2012 batch 'B' with the orientation taking place on Tuesday across the nation.