Osun: Gov. Aregbesola evacuates 70 corps members

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Osun, State News Sunday, April 24th, 2011

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has evacuated 70 out of about 200 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who are indigenes of the state in the crisis-ridden northern states back home.

The corps members who were trapped in crisis-torn states were successfully brought home by a task force set up by Aregbesola. The task force was headed by the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Adejare Bello.

The returning corps members were welcomed back home on the promises of the Osun State parliamentarians, who lamented the appalling conditions under which the corps members lived before they were evacuated.

Receiving the returnees on behalf of the state government, Bello described the step taken by the Aregbesola administration as a demonstration of its sustained interest in the welfare of the people irrespective of where they reside within or outside the country.

“Just this morning, I told the governor that you are in the ACN while I am in the PDP. Politics is not supposed to be a do-or-die affair. Every Nigerian must show sportsmanship. If you lose today, you can win tomorrow,” he added.

He told the gathering of people at the reception programme that “as you are seeing them, they (corps members), have not taken their bath for several days now. We just brought them back from Bauchi to the Osun State House of Assembly.”

The Speaker explained that Aregebsola has approved the release of funds for the settlement of the corps members in their various family homes.

Responding on behalf of the returning corps members, Dr. Abiodun lauded Aregbesola for being the first governor to show concern for marooned members of the NYSC in the north.

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