I can't see the change mantra!
Corps members are being killed, now not with machetes: not only their blood are being spilled, but our tears are being shed. Our elders will say big issues are better analysed from smaller perspective.
I remember I wrote several articles on the need to scrap NYSC or better still make it optional. This morning my pen came bleeding again when I woke to the news of the dead of miss Elechi Chenyerem, a 27 year old corps member who died in Bayelsa camp. As if that was not enough, this same week we heard about the death of Ifedolapo Oladepo, a first class graduate of Transport Management of Lautech who died in Kanu camp as a result of negligence. The report claimed she was refused treatment because of an assumption that she wanted to evade parade. What nous is in that please?
It is annoyingly sad, shockingly barbaric and painfully unfortunate that these corps members agreed to go through the obviously pointless NYSC programme, even at the cost of losing a full year of their lives. They agreed to serve a country that only pays back with blood and tears. After all, what they get is degrading and inhumane situation that eventually led to their dead.
Come to think of it in the spite of this cold-hearted treatment, poor welfare condition, paltry monthly allowance and the case where prospective corps members have to be delayed for about a year before they are being mobilised is a serious issue that need to be looked into if the scheme must proceed.
If Mr. President still believe in this youth service programme, if he still thinks it hasn’t lost it valour and savour, if he still thinks our youths are rather not being used as pawns in the game of chess, Why then is Zahra Buhari, his daughter not serving her fathers land like others even though she just graduated? I stopped believing in Mr. President change mantra when I didnt see the change.
Why must it only be the children of the masses that should serve their fathers land? Why must it be only them subjected to this inhumane situation? “We must begin the change!"
God bless Nigeria!
I dedicate this article to Ifedolapo and Chinyerem. May God grant your families the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss
Teepen (unrepentant optimist)
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Zhara wetin,

op there have been another two cases of death aside the one you are talking about, I keep wondering what the hell is, the organization turning into

make Dem turn it to another stuff where yuuts can learn skills and trade jare. the thing na waste of time