The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, says over 200,000 corps members have been deployed as INEC ad-hoc staff ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Ahmed made this known on Tuesday at a press conference in Abuja, while urging the corps members to be conscious of the area they find themselves in during the elections.
According to Ahmed, the corps members deployed for the elections were expected to be fully dressed in the NYSC uniforms; while those who would not participate and do not live in the corpers’ lodge are to remain in mufti in order not to be targeted. Ahmed said in case of any emergency, the NYSC had established a distress call centre at the headquarters with number 6972 for corps members to call for prompt response.
In his words, “They must not accept food from anybody; as they go, they should carry at least their service support along with them that is all that they will use on that day.
“Any form of gratification or any form of gift, we don’t expect corps members to accept. All we’re asking them to do is go and perform their duty as expected of them and leave.
“As you are aware, my priority since I assumed duty is the issue of security and welfare.
“The welfare of the corps members as well was presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and it promised to take care of it.
“Not only their security but wherever they will be taken to – right from where they will sleep before being taken to their respective places of duty.
“INEC promised to provide the NYSC members with sleeping kits and all that they require.”
