#NYSCAbuse: Mr. DG, what even is this committee you speak of?

The News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen Suleiman Kazaure, finally has a few things to say about the death of the youth corps members that needlessly lost their lives in the space of one week.

On a visit to the NYSC orientation camp in Asaba, Delta, Brig.-Gen Suleiman Kazaure says the cause of death has not been ascertained -despite the fact that we already know that this falls mostly on the laps of the corps’ negligence. But that’s alright. He hasn’t ascertained it yet, so we’ll let him.

What is worrisome is the fact that the DG is already trying to go the Nigerian way with this: saying that a committee has been set up to look into the deaths.

After asking the corps members in Asaba to rise for the customary one-minute silence in honour of the dead, he challenged them to deliver some more dedication and commitment towards achieving the objective of national integration.

He also asked them to contribute their quota to national development and carry out any assignment given to them diligently and that they should be found worthy in character and learning and urged them to avoid shady business and sharp practices.

Now we’ve gone through everything this man said and it appears that the deaths is not the foremost on his plate. But why shouldn’t it?

Why is this not an emergency? Why doesn’t the DG of this corps sound distraught?

And most importantly, WHAT IS THIS COMMITTEE that is supposed to look into the deaths?

As a Nigerian, it ordinarily won’t sound off that a committee will be set up to look into the deaths of corps members on camps across Nigeria. After all, it is all still he-said-she-said. But the problem with this is that in Nigeria we have Corona courts that are empowered to look into deaths -especially of this nature.

Have there been autopsies yet? If not, why?

Just why has it taken this long for the NYSC DG to say anything or act interested on this matter?

 

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