The National Youth Service Corps says Miss Damilola Ekundayo was
ejected from orientation camp because she refused to wear the
service kits including trousers.
Ekundayo was sent out of the Sagamu Orientation Camp penultimate
Friday following her refusal to wear the prescribed NYSC kits.
The NYSC said Ekundayo's action contravened the law regulating and
prescribing the dress code for all members of the scheme.
Coordinator of NYSC in Ogun, Mrs. Theresa Anosike, said Ekundayo's
refusal to wear the kits, including the khaki trousers at the camp and
her insistence on putting on only skirts for the compulsory one-year
programme contradicted Section 3 subsection (h) of the scheme's
2012 bye-laws.
Anosike, who addressed newsmen in Sagamu on Friday, however,
stressed that due process was followed before the corps member
was sent out of the orientation camp.
She added that like her other colleagues, the ejected corps member
signed an undertaking on cultism and the dress code when she was
admitted into the orientation camp.
She disclosed that Ekundayo was first reprimanded and brought
before a panel before she was eventually ejected when she insisted
that she would not wear the proper NYSC kits due to her religious
beliefs.
The NYSC state coordinator said, "We had to decamp a corps
member, Miss Ekundayo Tolulope Damilola, a graduate of Zoology from
the Lagos State University who reported in this camp and registered
on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. She was assigned the code number
OG/13A/1344.
"On Friday 8th of March 2013, at about 7pm she was reprimanded
by a camp official and was taken to the camp director's office for
refusing to wear the NYSC kit items contrary to the undertaking she
had signed to abide by the NYSC dress code. We have copies of this
here which we'll give to you after this briefing.
"At about 9.00pm, she was brought to my office by the camp
director with the report that she refused to wear the NYSC kit
items. I was also told that she had been brought before a panel to find
out why she wasn't going to wear the kit items at about 7.00pm but
she said she wasn't going to wear those kit items because it was
contrary to her faith.
"The camp director noted that since Ekundayo arrived in the camp,
several camp officials had accosted her at different times but she
refused to wear the kit items, claiming that she had a covenant with
God and so there was nothing anybody could do. She insisted she was
ready to forgo the service year rather than wear the kit items. The
camp director said Miss Ekundayo's utterances were a threat to
peaceful coexistence on the camp and that that was why she was
brought to my office.
"I immediately convened an urgent meeting with the resident officer
one, representing the director general on the camp, the camp
commandant and all other heads of security agencies on the camp. In
their presence, I requested to know why she refused to wear the
NYSC kit items and asked if she knew the consequences of her action.
She claimed that there was no way she would go against her religious
beliefs and that she would rather leave the camp quietly than be seen
in any of the NYSC kit items.
She denied claims that the girl was thrown out of the camp at night.
"Contrary to their claim that we threw the girl out at night, we did
not throw the girl out. She opted to leave the camp. As a matter of
fact, once it is 6.00pm, and the flags come down, the corps
members are not allowed to move out of the premises. So, we
couldn't have thrown her out.
"Secondly, we heard we sent the girl out at about 11.00pm, you can
see from this undertaking that the man who came, one Apostle A.B
Otaru of the Antioch Church, Sagamu who is also the PFN chairman in
Remo came here, picked her up, did this undertaking and the time on
this undertaking is 10.27pm and even after they left the security men
were still at the gate to make sure that there was no problem.
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So the tales of 11pm were just to sensationalise the previous report, both the girl and her pastor wanted the public sympathy. Fail
Make her pastor print NYSC discharge certificate for her