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The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brig. Gen. YD Ahmed, today, has said about 200,000 corps members will be deployed as adhoc staff during Saturday’s presidential election, the
Brig. Gen. YD Ahmed, made this known at a press conference on the preparedness of the Scheme, ahead of the elections.
“The Scheme on Tues inaugurated a ‘Distress Call Centre’ at the NYSC Headquarters in Abuja, as part of ensuring the safety of corps members during the poll.
“About 80 percent of the adhoc staff to be deployed for the exercise are our corps members,” he said.
Ahmed, who said that the ‘Distress Centre’ with a short code of 6972 will be manned for 24-hours by personnel of the NYSC, during the entire period of the election.
The NYSC Director General, assured that their corps members have pledged to give in their best, like they have always done.
His words: “We expect nothing short of good professional conduct from them.
“Those of them that will be participating in the election have already been trained by officials of the Scheme, in various orientation camps, and by INEC”.
Gen. Ahmed cautioned corps members who will participate in Saturday’s election to shun any kind of gratification from politicians and members of the communities they will be deployed to.
