As next month’s governorship bye-election in
Adamawa State draws nearer, the National Youths
Service Corps, NYSC, has spelt out stringent
conditions which must be satisfied by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
before serving corps members could be released
for the polls.
Sources at the headquarters of the NYSC in Abuja
told Vanguard that the conditions include
provision of bullet-proof vests, armed escorts and
payment of attractive allowances.
It was also learnt that the NYSC had insisted that
participation by corps members in the forth-
coming polls would be made voluntary.
An impeccable source told Vanguard that the
Director General of NYSC, Brig. Gen. Johnson
Olawumi had insisted that he was not ready to lose
any corps member on any account.
The NYSC boss was said to have insisted that the
issue of adequate security for corps members
should not be handled with kid-gloves.
The source said that NYSC would not take any
position on whether to release corps members or
not until those conditions given to INEC were
substantially met.
The source further stated that the number of corps
members currently serving in Adamawa State is
not enough for the conduct of the election adding
that there would be need to mobilise corps
members from neighbouring states for the polls.
Speaking in a similar vein on the subject earlier,
Mr Kayode Idowu, the Special Adviser on Media to
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega told
Vanguard that the Inter-consultative Committee on
Election Security which undertakes risk assessment
of electoral contests would determine security
measures that the Commission would implement
during conduct of the election.
Said he: “The committee would advise the
commission and also draw up its own operational
orders that suits the assessment that has been
done.”
He further stated that the committee is doing its
work now, “so it may be pre-emptive to say
whether or not the template we have will suit that
election.”
He further stated that INEC had also deployed a
risk management tool that was developed with
support from the African Union and the
International Idea. “We deployed it in Osun and we
would deploy it Adamawa too”, he said.
He explained that the tool enables the Commission
“to do the risk assessment of particular places and
the factors peculiar to them. All these would be
factored in by the Commission in decision
making.” He further assured that INEC shares the
sensitivity of Nigerians who are apprehensive over
the deployment of corpers in the state given the
high level of insecurity prevailing there.
Said he: “ There is no responsible organisation
that would deliver innocent youths into the lion’s
den.”
He explained that if corpers were to be deployed
as adhoc staff for the polls, “ it would be based on
the guarantee that they are secured; otherwise,
INEC would not expose them to danger. If both
INEC and NYSC are convinced that they are
secured, then the corpers would be deployed.We
would consult the NYSC.”
He stressed that there is a dynamic relationship
between INEC and NYSC.
Said he: “The collaboration has taken a depth that
is unusual. In Osun, we didn’t have enough
corpers. However, the Director-General of NYSC,
mobilized corpers from the surrounding states to
handle the last election.
“The NYSC released the corpers to us because
their safety and welfare was guaranteed. When
people complain about militarization of elections,
this is one of the reasons why it happens. This is
because we need adequate security for men,
materials and voters.”
As at the time of filing this report, NYSC and the
electoral Commission were holding a crucial
meeting over the issue.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/adamawa-2014-nysc-gives-inec-conditions-corps-members-participation/

Even at that, I won't advice Corp members to be posted to these terrifying regions.













Leave the copas and employ me for those places 200k a day, will be considered.

I love this man.#no homo#