Nigerian Corps, NYSC Removes Akwa Ibom State Coordinator After Reports On Maltreatment Of Corps Members saharareporters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from saharareporters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has ordered the Akwa Ibom State Coordinator of the scheme to remove firewood from the orientation camp kitchen and replace it with gas cylinders, SaharaReporters has learnt. The order reportedly issued by the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig Gen Yusha'u Ahmed, comes after SaharaReporters reported that the Akwa Ibom State Coordinator threatened to punish corps members for exposing poor feeding, fetching firewood from the forest for cooking.
Nigerian youth corps members undergoing their national service at the Akwa State Orientation Camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have raised the alarm that the State Coordinator of the Scheme, Ekwe N. I. Chinyere, collected their phone numbers and threatened to punish them after SaharaReporters reported how the corps members lamented that they were being poorly fed.
Some Nigerian youth corps members undergoing their national service at the Akwa State Orientation Camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have lamented poor feeding despite the Nigerian government’s increment of their feeding allowance. The aggrieved corps members told SaharaReporters that the state coordinator and other officials allegedly forced bad meals on the corps members, necessitating most of them to spend their personal money buying food.