Polls: NYSC Calls for Security of Corps Members

Ahead of Saturday’s poll, the Akwa Ibom State Co-ordinator of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), Lady Ngozi Chukwuka, has called for more security measures for the safety of corps members engaged to the forthcoming election.

She made this call in Uyo, on Wednesday, during a town hall meeting of the Mitigation of Violence in Election (MOVE) Project, facilitated by the Centre for Social Transformation and Human Development.

According to her, adequate security had been promised for corps members, who were engaged as ad-hoc staff for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in previous years but, unfortunately, some of the corps members were entangled in electoral violence.

She said that as critical stakeholders during elections, corps members had aided free, fair and credible polls and so deserved to live their lives after the elections, but regretted that some of them had either been maimed or lost their lives due to electoral violence in previous elections.