According to their reaction,
“The reason why we have NYSC is for national integration. What we have now is different from that. The challenges that the corps members are facing threaten their lives.”
The minister’s comparison of military personnel with the NYSC members is improper.
As military personnel, it is their calling to be posted for security duties because they signed for it and they are prepared. “That is not the situation with the
corps members. What the corps members are doing is not what they want to
do. If you ask them, none of them would agree to be posted to those
places. “I am shocked that the minister made
such a statement. It is so sad and shocking. Instead of looking at the
failure of the state to protect lives and property, he (the minister) is
saying corps members should agree to serve anywhere they are posted
to.” Peter Esele
“It is insensitive to compare service
men to corps members. What had been done by this government as
compensation for families of the corps members that were harmed in the
past?
“Can the minister give a list of his
children and close relatives that would be deployed in these theatres of
insurrection as corps members before asking the same of other
Nigerians? If he is not capable of doing this, he should consider his
statement as very disingenuous and uncharitable.”
The people in charge of affairs of the country had no clue to what was happening. “Clearly, it shows that this
minister has no clue at all. If he has, he will not be saying such a
thing. As a parent, I believe that the NYSC has no value for the
Nigerian youth and the country. Tell me, what is the value?
“On a personal note, my children would
not go and serve in the North. They are sending other people’s children
to go and die, these corps members they are sending to the North, are
they soldiers? Did they sign to go and die?
“We are talking about corps members who were trained by their parents and guardians and not by the Federal Government.” Ankio Briggs.
The presence of soldiers of peacekeeping mission in Jos and other parts
of the North had not prevented the recurrent killings in the North. “Soldiers have been on peacekeeping
operations in the North, but still they kill people. These young people
just left school and they want to cut short their lives. They should try
and beef up security before posting them there."
“In Jos, there were policemen and they
ran away, why didn’t soldiers go there to protect them? So, that
minister does not know what he is talking about.”Abubakar Tsav.
“It is simple; it is not as if this
thing is mandatory, if you are posted to a state you don’t like, the
thing is for you to reject it, and you repeat the service, and you will
be posted to another state. The most reasonable thing is to reject it if
you are posted to such areas.
“As I am talking to you, there are
several military officers, who are posted to Borno, Yobe, Kano and
Kaduna, who are lobbying to get out of those states.
“There is hardly any police officer, who
is not working hard to get out. This means that the riot policemen who
are armed are scared, why then should anybody post any corps member to
those areas?” Onyeagucha asked.
“However, we must not lose sight of the Hausa adage which says, ‘Idan Yaro na kiwuya, baba na rowa,’ meaning if the child refuses to go on an errand, it means the father refuses to be generous to the child.” Source
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