– 49 corps members have been sent back home from the orientation camp over over undisclosed ailment
– Emmanuel Attah, the coordinator of the corps member said medical team checked on them for communicable diseases before they were sent back home
– Attah said the the parents or next of kin to them have been told about their conditions Emmanuel Attah, the coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps said 49 corps members have been sent back home over health issues.
According to reports, Attah disclosed this information in Ede camp, Osun state.
Attah made this known on Wednesday, May 31, during the inspection of the permanent orientation by Brigadier General Sule Zakari Kazaure, the director-general of the NYSC.
Attah said: “Two thousand, three hundred corps members were deployed in Osun State and out of this, we registered 2,226.
Of this number, 1,023 are male while 1,123 are female corps members. “Out of this number, we relocated 73 corps members.
Forty-nine corps members were sent home on medical grounds while the rest are nursing mothers and some have marital issues.
”The medical team checked any corps member for communicable diseases and we got some, registered them and sent them back home.
“Concerning affected corps member, we called the parents or next of kin to tell them the conditions of their children. We also paid their transport fares back home.
” Kazaure said: “The NYSC is about unity and national development. We have four cardinal programmes in the NYSC and through them we achieve the motives of the scheme.”
Ifedolapo Rachael Oladepo, a corps memebre died after a brief illness while at the Kano state National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in January 2017.
Several months later, her father, Wale Oladepo, who earlier reached out to the Federal Government for help in investigating the cause of his daughter’s death, has decided to sue them.
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