National Youth Service Corps in Ogun State has stopped a female corps member, Miss Tolutope Ekundayo, from participating in the ongoing orientation programme for allegedly refusing to wear trousers at the camp.
Ekundayo, who spoke with reporters after a press conference organised by the General Overseer, Faith Revival Apostolic Church, Apostle Paul Adenuga in Lagos, said she was thrown out of the camp at about 11pm on Friday.
The corps member, a graduate of the Lagos State University, Ojo, alleged that NYSC officials asked her to leave the camp after she refused to wear trousers, one of the corps members’ attire.
But the NYSC State Coordinator, Mrs. T.I Anosike, said Ekundayo voluntarily withdrew from the service “based on her faith.’’
According to Ekundayo, females wearing trousers contravened her Christian belief.
Tolulope said, “I faced a panel and I was directed to submit all the kits that were given to me on the camp, which I did. There was also an order that I should go to the account unit and refund the N2, 500 transport and bicycle allowances paid to me when I arrived at the camp and I did so. All these happened on the same Friday that they ordered me to leave the camp.
“I want to serve my fatherland and if NYSC will allow me to wear skirts, I am ready to return to the Orientation Camp. My khaki and white skirts were made in such a way that they did not give me any problem. I was in Platoon Four and I participated actively in all the exercises from Tuesday to the Friday that I was thrown out of the camp.”

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Miss Tolulope Ekundayo,i'm really challenged with ur courage nd conviction abt trousers bt permit mε̲̣̣̣̥ 2 say dis,u putting on trousers 4 3weeks of orentation camp doesn't make u backslider,its ur motive bhind putting it on dt matters.

Nawa for her o.

I salute miss ekundayo' s courage. My friends on NL, we shd learn to respect other people's liberty to choice. But if I may asked during my days in d camp in kwara state some of our female colleagues whose faith also prohibits the use of trouser were permited to redesign their khakhi into skirt. So, I think the Ogun camp mgt shd borrow a leaf from them in order to upheld our constitutionally guaranteed rights. May Godhelp His own from this subtle persecution in Jesus name , Amen.