Boko Haram: NYSC DG denies bomb blasts at orientation camps

THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Mahazu Tsiga, has denied media reports that there were bomb blasts at some orientation camps of the NYSC in the country.

Speaking at the NYSC orientation camp in Tsafe, Zamfara State, on Tuesday, the DG said such reports were aimed at distracting the attention of corps members, who had made up their minds to serve the country.

Tsiga told the corps members deployed in Zamfara to be firm and resolute in their determination to serve the country and to succeed in their future endeavours.

“The enemies are still pursuing you. They are not happy that you are here and they want to instill fear and self defeat in you. Please don’t allow them,” he said.

According to him, “I want to affirm that there is no bomb blast in any of the orientation camps across the country,”adding that the enemies had started issuing statements that “NYSC is not useful, NYSC is not important, NYSC should be scrapped. But I want to tell you that NYSC will still be around for a very long time.”

The DG said “millions of the youth are looking forward to this opportunity, but it is you that God chose to be here today,” adding that “if the president, who is an ex-corps member, could succeed, if the vice-president, who is an ex-corps member, could succeed, if many governors and ministers, who are ex-corps members could succeed, what of you?”

Tsiga charged the youth corps members to start having a vision on how they would succeed in life, noting that this was the time for them to start planning for their lives.

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