Murdered Bauchi Corps members : Over 600 suspects arrested – Yuguda

Posted by admin Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News Sunday, May 8th, 2011

GOVERNOR Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state disclosed, Sunday, that over 600 suspects have so far been arrested and being prosecuted in connection with the murder of nine members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC during the post election violence in the State.

Speaking with Journalists in Abuja, Sunday, Yuguda who noted that he stands accountable to his God for the killings, as the governor of the State when he dies, vowed that the suspects who he described as beasts and animals will be made to face the full wrath of the law for taking the lives of a human being, adding that if the law permits, he will personally take up a gun, shoot them when finally found to be guilty of the offence.

‘’Definitely, the law must take its own course, we have already arrested over 600 people, some of them actually did the thing, we are going to prosecute them and if the law will allow me, after they have been found guilty, if the law will allow, I will take the gun and shoot them myself.

‘’What is the correlation between that headline that I spat on top of the grave of these corpers, these boys that have toiled for twenty years with their parents paying their school fees, they have come to serve me, very happily serving me, anytime I go to them, they mill around me, and I have offered to give them jobs immediately after they finish- each and everyone of them was willing to take up a job in Bauchi, because by the provision of the constitution, anyone of them, after seven years, can become citizens of Bauchi State.

‘’You become an indigene of an environment after seven years and I give you permanent and pensionable appointment right from day one and how can sombody now say I spat on the corpses of the Corpers? I became news, people were writing articles about me as if they don’t know my antecedent, you portrayed me as an animal, as somebody who is heartless, I think that person who has engineered the write-up, probably, he would have been compromised to run me down as an individual.’’

According to Yuguda, Youth Corp members are very gullible, and the government should stop exposing them to the hazards of elections, adding, ‘’I personally feel that Corpers shouldn’t have been exposed to the dangerous trend of Nigeria’s politics because we have so many animals around who were prepared to snatch boxes, who were trying to use machete to machete people and these youths are serving the nation.wp_posts