Yenagoa – The NYSC has
postponed the orientation date
for the 2012 Batch ‘C’ corps
members deployed to Bayelsa to
enable the state fix structures
affected by the recent flood disaster. The state NYSC coordinator, Mr
Abiodun Sanusi, on Friday in
Yenagoa, said that the exercise
scheduled to hold on Monday
had been moved to Wednesday. “Generally, the date for the
orientation course for the 2012
batch `C’ service year is Monday,
Nov. 5, but because of the
situation of the structures
affected by the flooding in the state, the state government
approached the management of
the NYSC to extend the date,’’ he
said. Sanusi said that the NYSC had in
recent times considered crises
situations in some states by
allowing for shift in dates and in
some situations, a movement of
the orientation camps to safer places for the security and
wellbeing of the corps members. “We have been doing it in some of
the crises states like in Yobe and
Borno where we have the Boko
Haram issues. “In those areas, we have had to
move the orientation camps to
other areas for security reasons,
and it had to commence at
another date. That has been the
practise of the NYSC in addressing issues in crises
areas,’’ Sanusi said. He explained that in the case of
Bayelsa, the NYSC was not moving
the camp to another location,
adding that the floods did not
affect the orientation camp at
Kaiama in the Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the
state. “Rather, the orientation camp
has been used to house many of
the victims of the floods, as well
as affected corps members in
Kaiama,’’ he said. Meanwhile, a statement by the
state NYSC directorate signed by
its Public Relations Officer, Mr
Pius Iyamah, stated that
registration of corps members
would commence at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and end at midnight
on Thursday. It explained that the venue of
the orientation remained the
state NYSC temporary
orientation camp, Kaiama
Grammar School, Kaiama, adding
that the swearing-in ceremony would hold on Friday at the same
venue. (NAN)
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