@Ayomifull
Me too I don try am. You are right. The devil is a liar!!
I don report am again o. It was working this morning sha. I will follow it up sha. Thank you for your wonderful spirit. You must to sign this thing o. LOL!!

contracult:

@Ayomifull
Me too I don try am. You are right. The devil is a liar!!
I don report am again o. It was working this morning sha. I will follow it up sha. Thank you for your wonderful spirit. You must to sign this thing o. LOL!!

yeah i must, i wl keep trying until i can. I dont ever want to read about any innocent youth corper's unnecessary death again so we wl do all we can to get this scheme amended, my heart bleeds for the families of these young guys with bright future wasted in such brutal way

My dear, u don try am again? I have just been asked to tell you to try again.

Thanks dear.

Mobilizing towards the next Batch of the NYSC seems to be the best way to get their attention.

THEY ARE KEEPING QUIET BECAUSE THEY HOPE IT WILL ALL DIE DOWN LIKE THE OTHER RIOTS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.



@KoboJunkie You have successfully convinced the Nairaland community of your insensitivity. Like so many other idiots who conveniently throw stones into the market from a safe distance you have managed to soil any sensible image you had left.

For you: This was a totally dumb action.


The way I see it, YOU SPENT FIVE OR MORE POSTS TRYING TO THROW SPANNERS INTO THE WORKS OF SOMETHING THAT MIGHT SAVE LIVES JUST TO MASSAGE YOUR PRIDE. WELL DONE.

Okay peeps!
I just talked to the technical team behind the petition. The automatic update system was messing up, so now it has been changed to a manual system. Meaning somebody has to download all the names that are entered before it shows up on the petition. For this reason, when when you sign your name, it will not show up immediately, but it will show up. I am told that the list will be updated every hour. So please, sign it. Your name WILL appear.

Thanks.

NYSC is a useless institution. But i still understand its advantages, just stop sending corpers to the North


Signed

Bishop seeks scrapping of NYSC scheme

Worried by the violent aftermath of last week’s presidential election the Bishop, Diocese of Lagos West Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Dr. Peter Awelewa Adebiyi yesterday renewed the call for urgent convocation of a Sovereign National Conference.

The cleric who spoke through a statement said: "We appeal to this Government to urgently arrange for a Sovereign National Conference where the future of this country can be properly determined forthwith. At least, it is now clear to the reasonable man that it is no longer correct to say that Nigeria is one country. It comprises many nations and the core north has shown by their constant violent attitude towards the South that they are not keen on living in peace with others or being a part of the rest of us."
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/3785-bishop-seeks-scrapping-of-nysc-scheme.html

NYSC has lost its vision, as a result it should be scrapped. or they make it voluntary for graduating students. those who are saying it should remain have not lost anyone yet, if they had they will be saying something else, If my relative is posted to any of those wilderness states, I would order him/her to reject the posting or I disown such one.

I concur, pls they should be withdraw with immediate effect. Northerners are live sucking demons.

Hello peeps!
The petition is working nicely o. It may just take some time before your name appears. Please and please keep rallying people to sign it. We need many many many more signatures. And if you signed yesterday and your name did not come through, please sign it again. There was a glitch yesterday.

Thanks.

SIGNED
Nysc has lost its usefullness it should be scraped or fed govt should stop sending inocent youth corpers to northern nigerian states to their early grave

And to those supporting nysc may your loved ones, children, brothers, and sisters be butchered and hacked to death just as the innocent southern corpers are been butchered in northern nigeria

Pls let us keep signing.

Also remember the petition is calling for the FG/NYSC to release the names of the dead, create a memoriam in their honor and compensate the family accordingly. These kids died as heroes serving their father's land and they deserve to be recognized for this.

To the best of my own knowledge,i think nysc should be scraped bcuz d main purpose of establishing the structure is nation building and national unity,but 4 d past 38yrs of establishment we find it difficult 2 see ourself as one.if truely we are one nigeria the northerners will accept gej victory in d jst concluded election and dia will b no cause 4 violence.

@ kobojunkie. U can use ur own child 4 a litmus test in those volatile northern state. But 4 my own child i cant gamble wit him/her, corpers r being butchered n u talk of govt failure, u try to save ur head first b4 talkin of failed govt, if u r mutilated wil there be mouth to talk of failed govt? Corpers sh be deployed elsewhere b4 we talk hw to tackle d problem there.

YES Oh I support it, do not send corpers to places - not just the North as some bigots are campaigning for - that are violence prone, this places include but not limited to;

Delta state ( have undergone intemittent attacks by millitants and ethnic chuvinism), Anambra (Over ran by politcal thugs during the crisis of Ngige), Abia (Overan by kidnappers), EDO (overan by armed robbers), Bayelsa( MIllitant safe haven), Most of the Niger Delta ( Militants always attacking sporadically) Bauchi - faced intermittent attack by ethnic bandits and Boko Haram insurgency, Jos - corpers are definately not indigenous hence they could fall for the current settlers/indigenes rofo rofo fight, Kaduna- Bad boy in ethnic fights, no go area, Kano-killings has been quite but has resarted again, Bornu - Boko haram territory, Katsina - Just signed up recently in the long list of violence prone state, Lagos - Area boys dey go mad some times and MEND don attack there before, Abuja - Bomb blast is the popular form of violence, Kogi seen it own shear of political violence in the past, Osun - Political violence - ACN and PDP supporters, Oyo - Adedibu has left violence imprinted on it, Sokoto - recently signed up, Benue - Political Violence is ongoing, etc it seems everywhere is violent prone.

signed, thanks contracult

NYSC, another white elephant project- ambitious and full of promise, but dead on arrival!

Has anybody done the maths yet on the NYSC program, can you imagine how much of the country's wealth has been siphoned away all in the
name of NYSC? Alternatively have we calculated how much is lost tying up our graduates in low earning jobs all in the name of unity

Its mind boggling how we Nigerians continuously get taken for a ride! Did it have to the deaths of those corpers to wake people up,

@OP I don't know where your online petition is but there are a few tools you can use e.g. http://www.petitiononline.com/ to get the word out.

Nigerians please wake up, you only have this country! the West don't want you and East won't have you,

NYSC is another scheme to steal away all of your hard earned money!

May the all the corpers who lost their lives Rest In Peace. AMEN

SIGNED! Re-posted on Twitter and Facebook!

In fact NYSC program shld probably be stop o government shld allow everyone of them to serve in their various state.Hausa corp members were not being trouble in south and west,why is it that these hausas are killing our own people?They are basically killing Yoruba,Igbo and Christians,why?Government shld handle these northern people with iron hand and not with all these gentle talks.

People, make some more noise. Keep signing, keep spreading the news - you never know who is listening!!


Source: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45788:3000-nysc-members-stranded-in-bauchi-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Akwa Ibom, Osun Evacuate Indigenes

ABOUT 3,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Bauchi State are awaiting evacuation to their states of origin following the continued insecurity in the state.
Some state governments are already heeding the call.

Quartered in the State Security Services (SSS) Development Centre on Maiduguri Road, for the fourth day, some the corps members said they were not sure how long they would be holed up at the centre.

However, some state governments have taken the responsibility of transporting corps members from their states out of Bauchi.

The Guardian learnt that Osun and Akwa Ibom at the weekend ferried their states’ corps members from Bauchi.

And in Lagos yesterday, some businessmen from the Southeast were frantically making efforts to arrange for chartered flights to evacuate from Bauchi corps members who are from Enugu, Abia, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra States.

Initial efforts to deploy luxury buses were shelved when the NYSC Director General Brig.-Gen., M. I. Tsiga, reportedly said, “he could not guarantee the safety of the corps members on the long stretch of road from the northern axis of the country.”

However, the leader of the corps members from Anambra State, Mr. Ebuka Okolochukwu, said on telephone yesterday that Tsiga had promised to evacuate the corps members but “he didn’t say the exact date.”

Okolochukwu said that, “after the president’s speech that the state government should take care of us, our state government has promised to send some buses for us. They plan to evacuate us to Gombe and then airlift us to Lagos. But nothing has been heard from them.”

According to him, the threat of violence in Bauchi has reduced “but we are not allowed to go outside the camp.”

He noted that since Akwa Ibom and Osun corps members had left, “security became lax (at the camp), as the gates of the centre are opened and people are trooping in without check. Anything can happen; there are no policemen here, only soldiers, but they are not enough.”

Another corps leader said they didn’t know when their state government would send a team to evacuate them. There is no definite plan. The DG (NYSC) said we should be patient and that he would provide vehicles and escorts. We are waiting.”

On Friday in Bauchi, while condemning the acts of violence, Brig.-Gen Tsiga told the corps members that, “our concern is to ensure your safety by organising a convoy of vehicles that will take you to the nearest safe places to your homes so that you will be reunited with your parents.”

He acknowledged the insecurity on the roads “as the situation was still tense,” but added corps members should join their parents, who were ready to take them out of the camp.

In the interim, a Senior Media Aide to the Akwa Ibom State governor said the government got “reports from corps members in different parts of the country, complaining about their safety and they wanted to come home.”

“The governor responded by sending buses to bring them. I can confirm that the governor provided buses to bring them back,” he said.

The Osun State government also confirmed that the “Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has evacuated 70 out of about 200 marooned corps members, who are indigenes of the state, in crisis-ridden northern states.”

The governor had set up a task force headed by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Adejare Bello.

According to an official of the state, the returning corps members were welcomed home on the premises of the State House of Assembly in Osogbo by the Speaker, who described the step taken by the Aregbesola administration “as a demonstration of its sustained interest in the welfare of the people irrespective of where they reside within or outside the country.”

The corps members lauded Aregbesola for being the first governor to show concern for marooned corps members in the North.

Many of the corps members form a large part of the ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and their absence may threaten the polls in Bauchi, rescheduled for April 28 due to the post-election violence there.

@Contracult

That's great. Yes we need to keep signing as more needs to be done.

Just read in the Punch newspaper(24/04/11) that Nass is planning to review NYSC scheme and i think this is one opportunity that all serving/prospecting corp members who think otherwise of the intentions of the programme should not miss.
I am a serving corp member and in my view i think the scheme should be scrapped because it is obvious that the essence has been lost long time ago.

Most serving corp members or those who have served will agree with me that the scheme is just for the benefit of a few corrupt politicians/officials who see it as a means of enriching themselves. Also, it is now a known fact that we are likely to record more deaths of graduates during the NYSC period than during any other time. A most unfortunate thing!

what is the point?

The point is that since NASS has decided to take up the matter, the corpers themselves who are directly involved should arise to the occassion. This is the time for us to mobilize ourselves, march to the national assembly to support them and also to let the whole world know what our grievances are. Let us use all available resources at our disposal, all media, social networks, to register our concerns.we are the future of tomorrow truly but we are also the voice of today. We should not allow a few selfless individual who know noting about our grieve, our emotions and our plight dictate to us how we intend to live our future. who says what happened in Egypt, Tunisuia, and all those Arab countries cannot happen here in Nigeria. It is just a matter of organization and unity.

I therefore make this clarion call to all youth corpers who share my view and who has one unfortunate story to tell about NYSC to come together, collate our stories together and fix a date when we shall make that revolutionary march to the national assembly and tell the whole world our stories.
Just like GEJ said, Enough is Enough!

@Petme

My dear, may you live long!! Spread the news of the petition to all your corper friends. THey are the ones that the shoes are pinching, let them sign it. And if you guys are serious about organizing a march, why not get on it. We will support you by massively mobilizing online! This is an opportunity to deal with a great injustice. Let us keep the fire burning!! Talk to your friends, start a twitter and facebook campaign, let us know when , and we will make noise about it yes ooo! Go sign the petition my dear - that is a start!

And is there any chance that you can find an online version of the punch article and post it here?

Thanks.

@ contracult
I have signed the petitions and i am getting my friends on it. About the protest march, i have started work on it.
Now is the time and there is no going back!

Petme!
Wonderful! When you are ready and you have any concrete date or plans, start a Nairaland thread. We will carry it far and wide and drum up support. Yes o. I dey your back like hunchback!!

This is to all those corp members and well meaning Nigerians who feel something urgent should be done about this time-waster and death-trap scheme called Nysc.

In respect of the post above, I welcome all possible advice and strategies that can be used to make sure that our voice is heard.
Something need to be done and it must be urgent, hence the call for contributions on how this revolution can be achieved.

These are my own suggestions, though rudimentary but I welcome advice, criticism and other more revolutionary ideas and suggestions.

1. that a protest march should be organized to the National Assembly.
2.The protest march will primarily involve all those corpers presently serving in Abuja to reduce cost but others from other state can join.
3.The date should be after the election but before swearing-in-ceremony.
4. We the Nigerian student/youth should draw up list of demands that must be met before the continuity of the scheme if it will not be totally scrapped.
5 A committee can be set up to do No 4 task and paste it here on NL for all to criticize.
6. Pending the time the protest march will be organized, all institution of higher learning should be reached and all prospecting corp members for the next batch should be warned not to pick up their call up letter until everyone is satisfied with the scheme.
7. facts and figures that will show the whole world that the scheme is a waste of national health should be posted e.g imagine the fact that each corper outfit cost N70,000. I mean just one outfit o!
8. That Nairalanders and every concerned Nigerian who know who we can get across to that will support our cause should let us know.

Mind you this is just what i can think of now but like i mentioned earlier, all forms of advices, criticism and suggestions are welcome as long as they further this course.

Please do not let us keep silent about this issue and watch this opportunity to do something slip away. I am just a common Nigerian who feel something need to be done and it must be done now!

for all those who feel the same way as I do and who have suggestions on how this can be achieved, this is my email: smartguy0995@yahoo.com .

thanks @ contracult


I have started a thread on that you can check it.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-653490.0.html#msg8194603

This is great. Let the whole Nigeria know about the views of Nigerians online. We might impact something.

[size=14pt]signed [/size]

C'mon people
We need to keep this thread alive. A lot of the news coming out about corpers is not good. What is going on is nothing short of outrageous. Check out this story for instance:

Peretimi Apeli a youth corps member and a victim of the post election violence that swept across some states northern Nigeria lost everything he had during the crisis but for the faded shirt, a pair of shorts and bathroom slippers that he was wearing.

Frustrated and depressed, Mr Apeli is taking refuge at the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Katsina State. Mr Apeli vividly remembers the events of Monday, April 18, 2011, when he narrowly escaped death in the hands of irate youth in Daura Local Government who had gone on rampage protesting the yet-to-be announced results of the presidential elections.

“It was around 10:30. I was in front of the house trying to cook, selecting beans when a car came that they are coming to our lodge that we should run,” said Mr Apeli, a graduate from the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa.

“It was as we were running into the car outside that I saw the mob. I saw death. That we are alive is God because if they had met us in the house, I wouldn‘t be here. We had to drive through bush before we managed to escape to the Daura Police station.” The mob completely burned the Dambukar Lodge which the Local Government Education Authority had given to him and seven other corps members. While no life was lost, nothing was salvaged.

At the same time in Zango Local Government, over 20 corps members living at the Central Corpers Lodge had to take refuge at the Nigeria-Niger Republic border.

Chaos unlimited

Within the next 48 hours, the situation worsened across at least seven local governments, notably Funtua, Jibia, Kankara, Faskari, Malumfashi, Dandume and also Katsina, the state capital. Several lives were lost while scores of churches, property, shops and businesses worth hundreds of millions of naira were completely razed.

“Katsina has always been peaceful. This crisis came as a surprise to all of us. This is the first time in my 17 years in Katsina this type of thing is happening,” said Adewale Adediran, the Katsina State chapter chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). In Katsina, the state capital, hoodlums razed the house of the head pastor of the Cherubim and Seraphim church together with the church bus along Dutsin-Ma road at about 11p.m., despite the 9p.m to 7a.m curfew imposed by Katsina state governor, Ibrahim Shema.

The fire also destroyed the apartment of four corps members and another female occupant scheduled to wed next month.

They were left on their own

As security presence was greatly stretched to contain the violence which had erupted across the state, the army’s 35 Battalion obtained clearance to open the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state capital.

The corps members in Daura, numbering over 100, were asked to assemble at the Daura Police station, while the commanding officer of the battalion, Emmanuel Etuka, a lieutenant colonel, made provision for buses to evacuate them to the camp under military cover.

But on the same Monday, the NYSC Katsina State coordinator, Abdul Salisu Taura, visited the corps members at the Police station, refusing them relocating to the orientation camp. By Tuesday, Mr Taura disbursed N1,000 to each corps member to use to fend for themselves, while they slept inside the police station premises in the open air outside.

By Wednesday, the corps members decided they would no longer pay heed to Mr. Taura and instead go to the camp than continue living in the police station. But by this time the military were unable to provide the buses which had initially being offered.

When NEXT asked Mr. Taura why he refused them moving to the camp, he denied giving the directive. And when asked what provision the NYSC had been made to transport the corps members to the camp, he said it was the responsibility of the Army to provide the transportation.

“The army is there. The army is to move them. Like me I am very far away now. It will take me about four hours to get to Daura. Let the army move them,” Mr Taura said. He subsequently switched off his phone.

In a desperate effort to leave Daura, the corps members made a written application to the authorities of the Yusuf Bala Usman College of Legal and General Studies, Daura, for a bus to convey them to the NYSC Camp.

The school authorities initially refused on the grounds that they needed to see the security which would accompany the vehicle they would release to the corps members. But when Captain Omotade with several soldiers drafted to ensure the corps members safety presented himself, the school’s provost, Husseni Umar, in the presence of the registrar, Mohammed Daura and the director of works, still refused citing several reasons.

“One, it is unlawful for the army or the police to come into the school premises. Two, we cannot guarantee the safety of the people if we release our vehicle. Three, are corpers of a privileged group that they alone need protection? I am the chief security of the college and I will not release it. Even we as a board we have superiors we report to,” Mr. Umar said.

When NEXT asked who could be approached to get clearance for the release of the bus, Mr Umar said he would not assist. At an earlier time, the director of works had said only the governor of the state could give the approval.

A good Samaritan At wits end, the corps members resigned to charter seven commercial buses at N2,000 each vehicle. But by the time the vehicles were assembled at the police station, neither the corps members nor the NYSC Zonal Inspector in charge of the zone, Mrs Shittu had the funds needed.

It was eventually a good Samaritan who paid the drivers N14,000 in the presence of Ayo Basowa, the coordinator of the Daura Corps members.

With heavy military escort, about 100 corps members were conveyed to the NYSC camp, where they were received by the heads of the State Security Service, the army and the Police in the state.

Like Mr Apeli, the over 600 corps members evacuated from different locations in the state and presently residing at the NYSC camp feel more secured. Yet the experience of the past week has left them traumatised. They say nothing will make them go back to their places of primary assignment where they are expected to perform their role of presiding officers in the forthcoming Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

“Everybody here is one trouser one shirt. Look at me now. All I have is my shorts and bathroom slippers. I have lost all my credentials and belongings. I saw people who came to kill me. No human being who sees what I saw will go back and conduct election. For N7,000? Never!” said Mr. Apeli as he counts his losses serving his fatherland.

Source: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5693091-146/story.csp

@contracult

I have tagged bellanaija and notjustok on twitter to please put this petition up to no avail o. If anyone has a better way of contacting please do.