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When I finally replied AY, I just told him "I'm redeploying" and he started laughing, because he didn't need a soothsayer to tell him I had been posted to Kebbi State.

I came back to the NYSC section and the NYSC Batch B 2016, prospective corp members thread to look for fellow Kebbi State corpers, I saw a few, we created a WhatsApp group and talked about when to leave, where to the board a bus to Kebbi and the likes.

When I called my mom to tell her about where I was posted, she was like "Kebbi ke? Ah!" And she dropped the call. I called my dad also to inform him that I was posted to Kebbi State, he was like "Ok, when are you going?".
"Thursday" I replied. "Ok, I wish you safe journey" was his reply.
I proceeded to meet my mom at work and her face said it all, she looked unhappy and scared that something might happen to me. I was her only son and you know parents or should I say Nigerians have this general perception that every Northern state is plagued with Boko Haram. I looked at her, while smiling and told her "all is well, I'll be fine, they said the place is cool and there's nothing like Boko Haram there". This I had found out when I posted on my Facebook "when NYSC decides to send you to Kebbi!!! ", for a guy, I had not gotten that much comments in my posts or photos for a very long time, over 50 comments. They were all consoling me and telling me how Kebbi is good and I shouldn't be scared, they even assured me the state capital, Birnin Kebbi has better power supply than Lagos. Although, someone had a negative comment which caused a little brawl, but I was able to quickly settle it. I was actually feeling like a King though , people fighting on top my posts, that was a first. Apparently, Momsi had also seen the post and commented on it, I had not checked to see it then.
So she told me "I'm sure you would be okay, there's a reason for everything and God will surely protect you."
I left her office and went home, on getting home, my Dad called me back "I just found out about Kebbi, they told me it is very far, I didn't know it was that far, it is farther than Kaduna and Abuja. They said the road is not good and Boko Haram is there and that you should redeploy".
I replied " I know, but I'd have to get there first before I can redeploy ". He replied " You have to go ke? Must you go to the camp before you can redeploy? " I replied affirmatively and told him the only way I might not have to go was not reporting to camp at all and remobilizing with Batch A '17. His reply was "Yes, don't go at all" and me that I had been at home for more than a year, who couldn't take it anymore, just replied "No daddy, I have to go o." He replied "OK o, you and your mom should decide and let me know your final decision". My reply was "okay", having at the back of my mind that there was no way I'd miss this Batch again.

A close friend of mine, Michael was posted to Kebbi State too, I helped him to check and broke the news to him. He had not even gotten his kits and other necessary stuffs that he needed, he didn't even have his school I.D card. You can say that Michael got posted to Kebbi because of me and he didn't let me hear the last of it even at camp, that is a story for another day.

So, I started enquiring about where to board the bus from the lady in my house and she told me the best place to board the bus was around Oyingbo, Idoo Bus Stop, I told Michael and coincidentally he was told the same thing. He asked when I would be leaving, I replied "very early on Wednesday morning and make sure say you reach there on time o, you know camp opens on Thursday and the Journey is for like 16-19 hours", he replied "Sure na, i know what's at stake this time", Michael is used to coming late for everything.
I checked to confirm with Promise, he was among the Nairalanders on the WhatsApp group that I clicked with, he was also going to take Idoo, so we had agreed to meet at the garage on Wednesday morning.
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Tuesday night, I was already packing and getting all my stuffs in my traveling box and the rest in my bag, I was good to go. When my Dad came back from work, my mom was successfully able to help me scope him to take me to the garage, early Wednesday morning.
I could barely sleep that night, I was too over excited and I couldn't wait for the journey. I slept my 11 and I woke up by 2am, sleep totally left my eye, I was just browsing through the net, doing dying minutes checks, before I proceeded to take my bath around 3am. Around 5am my parents woke up, they had their baths and got set, our other other neighbors were also awake as we had switched on our Gen, so some of them came to charge. When I was about leaving they called prayed for me and wished me safe journey, while I got into my Dad's car with my mom, bidding my younger ones goodbye, before leaving for the garage.

I had always known AY had been posted to a Northern State, but I was not sure if it was Kebbi or Niger State. He had posted a picture of him climbing on a Camel during his swearing in ceremony for Batch A '16 Corp Members at Kebbi State Camp and that got me really excited, like I would like to be posted to Kebbi State also so I can also pose with a camel. " what a wonderful feeling that'd be", I thought at the time. Most times whewe chatted on WhatsApp or social media, I had kept calling him "Niger State Corper" and he kept correcting that he was posted to Kebbi and not Niger, I still continued to make the same mistake. Why? I don't know, reason best known to my brain, maybe because they were so close to each other and Niger seemed more like the State with numerous camels.

So on the day I was to do my NYSC registration, after almost fighting with our school's NYSC officer at the Students' Affairs Division because we had not seen our names on NYSC portal and Registration had already kicked off a day before. We were of the opinion that all the "good states" would have been selected and we would be made to select the "not so good ones". The WhatsApp numbers we had gotten from NYSC's website weren't making things easy either, as they kept telling us our institution were yet to submit the Hard Copy of our lists for "synchronization" on their website, while our Officer told us he had done it over a week or two ago. We all thought we were going to be 'codedly' not mobilzed again and that'd mean wasting almost two years at home, when we were not trying to gain admission into the University. To cut the long story short, we later saw our names on NYSC's portal on the 2nd day of registration, I was at work at the time, so I had to wait till I got home to start my registration.

Once I got home I started looking for a cafe to do my registration, the first one had so many people to attend to, so they asked me to come the next day. I replied "okay, no problem", but went ahead to look for another cafe to finish my registration. It didn't take me long to locate another cafe that had low patronage, but the mistake I made was not asking how much they charged.

I took a passport with them, because I had none and my bio data capturing. When it was time for me to select my four choice States, this was when the " AY mistake " had come into play. The first column or tab had only Northern States, so I picked Kwara, the 2nd was Southern States, I picked Oyo Stare (my most preferred and dream State), the 3rd were Nothern States also, I had first picked Niger thinking that's where AY I was posted and had proceeded to pick Enugu as my fourth choice. The pressure of the lady doing the registration was too much for me ask she kept asking me if I was sure and that she had other people to attend to, I asked her to change Niger to Kebbi, so I would spite AY a bit, thinking at least if they don't give me Oyo that I had telling everyone I would be posted to, most especially AY, at least me and AY wouldn't be in the same State.

I finished my registration and refused to the online payment with them, as I could easily do that at home myself and I had already even done the first stage of the registration myself. When I asked how much my bill was, I was told N1,700, N200 for the passport and N1,500 for the registration and that was because I didn't do the first stage of registration with them or ask that they help me make my payment, safe to say I would have paid N3,000 for just registration that day. I paid for the bill out of spite, cause I was ripped off and this was something I could have just done at home, if I had the thumbprint scanner or I had just paid for only thumbprinting and finished the rest at home.

I got home and told my mum about it and she was satisfied with it, she only felt that I should have picked only southern Western states and when I explained to her NYSC's policy, she was cool with it. When I told Ay how I had picked Kebbi and not his State Niger, he was like "Na Kebbi I dey jor, how many times i go tell you?" I was like "ooh, nothing spoil". Then he told me let God's will be done but he has a strong feeling I would be posted to Kebbi, I was like God forbid "na Oyo Sate I dey go o", he replied "OK o". When I told the lady in my house that had serves in Kebbi, that I picked Kebbi State she was like " Kebbi ni o nlo" (You're going to Kebbi State), I replied "it's a lie na Oyo I dey go", with so much confidence, that you'd think the DG was either my Dad or Uncle or I had already paid a huge some of money for my posting "na Oyo, Ibadan!!!"

Well we all know what later happened at the end..

"Oya Dami help me check it! I am too scared to check it myself." I said to my younger sister, asking her to help me check the Laptop screen, where I had downloaded my callup letter in pdf, while my heart was racing like I was being chased by a masquerade.

All of a sudden she exclaimed "Kebbi, ah Brother Dotun is going to Kebbi". Drawing the attention of the whole house, who all started trooping towards our apartment, shouting through the window with joy "Sheybi we told you? You'll get posted to Kebbi State", particularly obvious among the little crowd was a lady in my house who had served in Kebbi 2-3 years ago and had been telling me I would be posted to Kebbi, ever since I told her I picked Kebbi among my Four(4) choice states.

While all these drama were happening, I had not even checked my callup letter to confirm if my Younger Sister was joking or was serious. After mustering courage to check it myself, I scanned through the sheet hurriedly, hoping that somehow my sister was joking but alas I was greeted me with: Kebbi State, NYSC Permanent Camp site, Dakingari.

Lots of thoughts started pouring into my mind, like "how would I get there? Where would I get the transport fare? How would I be coming back home to see my family? Why so far away from home? Who asked me to pick Kebbi? Why didn't I research well about where Kebbi State is in Nigeria? Why did NYSC have to give me Kebbi among all the states I picked sef?"
Then it struck me! I can always redeploy, what was all the fuse about sef? I felt at ease a little bit for that period of time. I immediately went to WhatsApp to inform my Batch '16 hopefuls family on WhatsApp to give them the "not to so good news" about where I was posted. Most of the guys replied with "Eyaah, don't worry you'll redeploy na". The funny thing was that, majority of them were posted to Southwestern States, while a few of them got posted to Zamfara, Taraba, others were to go with Stream II, I felt sad for the last crew, cause we had all been at home for over a year waiting to be called to " Serve our Father's Land ".

I later went ahead to inform my other friends, my media crew team members, who were still undergraduates, that I had been to posted to Kebbi. It was like they had all been waiting for me to be posted to Kebbi State, as they started to reply with "I told you so", I just stylishly laughed it off and told them "I'd redeploy na".
A particular friend of mine, AY, buzzed me up to ask where i had been posted, we both graduated from the same Institution same set, but he was fortunate to be mobilized with Batch A '16 and was also posted to Kebbi State. I read his message and refused to reply him at first, because he was among those that caused this Kebbi State predicament I found myself in.




How you ask??

Yes!!! Ok So I've always wanted to do this, ever since I've been seeing past Corp members experience on this NYSC Section.
I would be sharing my experience right from when I saw my Call up letter, I hope you guys enjoy and hopefully I don't forget the major details.

GL Guys where una dey:
cc Y0rmee, Franceswasky, Dream2, Chumaster, mightyleks, justifiedcoyy, aBbiie25, Greycious, ruthobaz, tenderblaze, edbor, JohnQueen, bussieboi, Funkeadeoye, Dipson and dotman, showgolee.

And shout out to "Off the Light!!!" Crew, Room 2 Hostel 1 Guys

kstix:
They use 5 relevant subjects from ur school cert, not all the subjects.

Finally!!! Someone that understand how it works, they don't use 9 subjects but just 5 relevant subjects. All of them were just ranting "ignorantly"

Hollawayn05:
Camp will be Open for the next 3days after the opening date, and registration will also be On...
Food will be available in the camp Kitchen, but might be Substandard, So you can move to the mammyMarket to satisfy ur self...
for those that still haven't gotn all der Materials Needed, you can get most of dem in camp but with extra cost "rubber boot is also available"
They don't sell alcohol in Camp, But you can get it In sha "I dint just say that"
drop your C****m at home, you won't be needing it..
Soldiers here are very friendly buh dey go dey ginger una ones ones, try and penetrate dem and u will see how dey can be Soothing.

Lol.. Thanks Bro

gpranky:
Lagos to Enugu Cele Express The Young Shall Grow 4000
6AM.

Wow! I wish I was going to Enugu.. Cele Express na my side!!!

Sekcibeast1990:
Pls white sneakers and rubber tennis. I dont understand. Must we bring the two along or any one of the two

Rubber white tennis is OK for you, they'd give you a white sneakers at camp

callmemercy:
Hehehe... Your case is different sha

Lol how is my case different?

aBbiie25:
Totally unnecessary for now. Till we get our states of deployment. Its way too early for a whatsapp group right now. Makes the thread seem meaningless.

Abi what do you guys think??
oluwayorme
dottune
justifiedcoyy justifiedcoy

Sabi Girl!

callmemercy:
Blood of the almighty Father's son... Where is kebbi?

Lol fear NORTH

callmemercy:
Ha! Abi na you runaway, after promising me fat, I didn't see ur brakelight anymore. Got posted to bayelsa... U?

Lol, me sef dey find fat, I was posted to Kebbi State.

callmemercy:
Lol...last last u go still beg, shako...

Hey you! Runaway friend, where dem post you?

MiebakaKiki:
I'm going to Kebbi. From Port Harcourt.
Please, I need directions. Any social media groups yet?

Yes there is, your WhatsApp number?

Kebbi
Kebbi
Kebbi
Kebbi
Kebbi
Kebbi
Where are you guys at??

I have added everyone

Kebbi State o

Group created we need more people o

Kebbi State peeps where are you o?

asgat1love:
Same too,least expected

Let us create a WhatsApp group and look for more Kwara Corpers

Kebbi State too o
I never experected it oooo

Omo this shiii ain't funny o.. I never fit see my callup letter

pcaliphate:
Abeg. Am new here. But by the way. My best food is Beans and what? Spinkled Garri. Yeah Beans and Sprinkled Garri.

Lol Bros you af come again, I saw this yesterday too.

Introduce yourself well na, asides beans and Garri

Hollamie007:
if u are notified harnubabie, aBbiie25, Posimii, sharliz, monniyi or iamhelen viewed ya profile u no go smile ni

Lol no -_-

surpriseMe:
yormee like dudes na

Loool Y0rmee craze neva reach that one

Hollamie007:
ma da padi yen loun

Lol abi? but iwo lo fa.. when you dey talk about "people viewing your profile".

surpriseMe:
Looool omo! shots fired! kilode? yormee na handsome dude o money maker always raining fa..I nor fit laff Yormee oooooo WHR u at?

Hollamie007 is a dude!

pelontus:
I submitted my school id card while applying for certificate. What can I do? Can I use my faculty id card?

Go back to your school and ask for "Letter of Identification" or "To whom It May Concern", you'll need it alongside Certificate at Camp.

abiodunalasa:
To all my fellow suicidal madrid fan...I say keep calm Laliga is ours this season.
Casimero will soon be back too...then our team will become terrorizing
Hala madrid

Hala Madrid!!!

Laughnigeria:
is the stuff still available?

It is fake, he'll scam you. I'm yet to get my money back or the add he promised

Immatex:
Sport is business. A competent minister will concern himself with making sport very lucrative and attractive to investors.

A competent sport minister will steer the ship of the sport sector to such a height that he would speak more on profitability, revenue generation and return on investment rather than speaking like an unschooled, unenlightened village herds man.

He is the wrong man for the job. He is not teachable and will only continue the 1950s model of sport administration.

God Bless You.

This is one of the most clueless minister Buhari has in his cabinet, he just talks anyhow without critically analysing what he wants to say.

“That was why this year, we had to tackle him (FIFA President, Ginani Infantino) and we said, ‘you , Infantino, if you win this election, you have to give us a position. If not, we shall not agree.’ And you see , by the grace of God, he even picked an African as his Secretary-General. That means he has started taking honey and rubbing on our lips. That means that one day, we shall get to really lick the honey.”

Does this make sense?

Cc: lalasticlala