NYSC clears Air on redeployment of Corps members!

Contrary to widely held belief that the Batch 'B' 2012 corps members posted to some northern states would be redeployed, only prospective corps members posted to troubled states but are yet to report to such states are to be redeployed by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management, even as the organisation declared that it would not deprive Bauchi State of the services of corps members due to the reason of insecurity.

Authorities of the scheme had, last week, directed corps members posted to some troubled northern states, including Bauchi, Gombe, Plateau, Kano and Kaduna states, for the Batch 'B' 2012 service year to report to its headquarters in Abuja for immediate redeployment.

The directive was interpreted in some quarters to mean that corps members posted to the affected states would be redeployed to other states of the country to perform their mandatory one-year national service.

But clarifying the directive while speaking with journalists last Friday at the permanent NYSC orientation camp at Wailo in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State shortly after visiting the camp to see things for himself at the ongoing orientation exercise, NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okorie-Affia, stated that the directed did not affect those already in camp for the orientation.