Afimag.com –
The Director-General of National Youths Service Corps, Brigadier General Dogara Ahmed has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to ensure security, welfare and comfort of the Corps members that would participate in the general election.
Brigadier General Ahmed who stated this recently in Abuja when he led a delegation to the INEC headquarters, charged the commission to make the safety of Corp members a top priority.
He said that NYSC was committed to assisting INEC to conduct free, fair and credible elections next month.
“The NYSC had been sensitising the Corps members on the importance of participating in the this election. We made it clear to them that it is a duty for them to do their best and take responsibility.
“On our part we would continue to let them know that they would be adequately secured. We have visited the Inspector General of Police, we have visited the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Military and every one of them has promises that everything would be done to secure the Corps members on Election days.
The NYSC boss said despite fears expressed in some quarters, the Commission had been sensitising the Corps members that participating in the election was a National Service.
In his reaction, the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu said that the security, comfort and welfare of the Corps would be taken care of.
