This development according to the Yobe State Coordinator of the NYSC, Grace Adzer is contrary to speculations that it was due to security challenges, explaining that the decision it is not as a result of security concerns of the North-East but a decision by the Corps management of the scheme to hold the camp in a particular campground when the number of Corps members is not much.
The North-Eastern states of Nigeria have been bedevilled with activities of insurgents in the recent past which has warranted the exclusion of the mandatory one year service from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States some years back.
However, with the return of relative peace in the region, the orientation camps were held for the troubled States in some neighbouring States after which the prospective Corps members were then sent to their designated States for the one year service.
While speaking to our Correspondent shortly after the swearing-in of the Corps members at the GSS Amada Temporary NYSC Camp for Gombe State, Grace J Adzer, the Yobe State Coordinator said that the facility is not overstretched even when three States are holding the Camp in one ground at the same time.
She said that there is absolutely no cause for alarm for the three States orientation camp to be held in one place at the same time considering the entire number of the Corps members sent to the three States.
According to her, “the facility is not overstretched because the number is not above the facility. More so, Gombe is fully prepared and has the facility to accommodate the three States.”
She explained further that, “it is only when there is a mop-up of students who, for some reasons could not serve in the previous times and where the number is not high that States are being merged to do the orientation together in one place at the same time.”
“The only thing is the curiosity of the Corps members who are anxious to know how Yobe is and what they will expect from Yobe. These are the kind of issues the corps members have been confronting me with. But they are feeling very much at home here in Gombe considering the peaceful and accommodating nature,” Grace Adzer explained.
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