Insecurity: Afenifere wants youth corpers to serve in home states
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Afenifere, a pan Yoruba socio-political group, has urged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to allow corps members to serve in their respective home states over gnawing insecurity and spate of kidnapping.
NYSC National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, made this known in a statement on Monday, titled, ‘Buhari Speech At The UN: Afenifere Challenges Him To Practice What He Preaches…Calls For The Decentralization Of NYSC.’
Afenifere also challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to do all that he said to world leaders at the 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York last week.
It also said that by serving in their home states, the chances of corpers being kidnapped would greatly be minimised.
The statement notes: “Since it has been admitted even by the Federal Government agency that we may need to live by kidnap syndrome as indicated by this NYSC tip, the minimum that the government owes parents and corpers in this regard is to let the youths serve their nation in their respective states.
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“That way, their chances of being kidnapped would greatly be minimized.”
The group also lamented that the government’s poor handling of kidnapping was what has emboldened the perpetrators to continue in their dastardly acts.
“We call on the government to immediately allow states to transform their respective security networks into state police with all the powers appertaining thereto,” Afenifere stated.
