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The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that the 2020 Batch A corps members posted to Borno State have been exempted from Orientation Camp.
The NYSC management made this known via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday.
The tweet read, “2020 Batch A Corps members serving in Borno State are exempted from the Camp resumption.”
NYSC, however, did not state any reason for the exemption to corps members posted to the northeast state. But recent events in the state suggests that it could be for security reasons.
Between November and December 2020 alone, more than 50 persons have lost their lives in attacks by Boko Haram, bandits and other insurgency groups in Borno State.
About 43 rice farmers were killed by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, about 20 kilometres from Maiduguri towards the end of last year. Borno State governor Babagana Zulum indicted the Nigerian army and police over insecurity in the state.
Recall that NYSC had asked the 2020 Batch A corps members to vacate camps nationwide due to the increasing cases of COVID-19 infections in the country in June 2020,
According to the official of the NYSC, “They are those that could not finish their camping before the coronavirus broke out. It does not affect this current batch. We have been bringing them back to camp in batches.
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“Some of them have been recalled in the last two camps. So, the last set is the one being recalled to camp now. But that information is just for those in Borno State. All others are going to camp in other states.”
Director, Press and Public Relations of NYSC, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, had in a statement said the 2020 Batch A corps members would complete their orientation course after the coronavirus lockdown.
The statement quoted the Director-General of the scheme, Brg.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, as speaking during a courtesy visit to the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, in Abuja.
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