The management of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has dismissed as fake reports circulating on the social media, alluding that 189 Corps Members have been murdered in Zamfara and Kaduna States, while 376 others were abducted across the Northeast within the year.
In a statement yesterday, the Scheme described the story as a figment of the writer’s imagination as nothing of such happened.
It reassured the general public that it will continue to work in concert with security agencies in order to ensure the safety of Corps Members across the nation.
The statement reads in part: ‘’The attention of Management of the National Youth Service Corps has been drawn to a fake story with the above caption circulating on the social media, alluding that 189 Corps Members have been murdered in Zamfara and Kaduna States, while 376 others were abducted across the Northeast within the year.
‘’Management wishes to state that discernible minds know that the story is a figment of the writer’s imagination, as nothing of such happened.
‘’Pointedly, no Corps Member was murdered by bandits this year in the said States, neither was any abducted in the geo-political region as unscrupulously written.
‘’It is imperative to restate that balanced reportage is the hallmark of good journalism. The integrity of information pushed to the public domain should never be in doubt.
‘’The Scheme is always open to enquiries, in order to guard against feeding the public with inaccurate, or completely false information.
‘’The National Youth Service Corps hereby reassures the general public that it will continue to work in concert with security agencies in order to ensure the safety of Corps Members across the nation.
NYSC Management wishes to restate that the story peddled by Opera News, quoting The Punch Newspaper as source is very misleading.
This same medium on Thursday, 29th July, 2021 came up with a fake story with the caption: Nearly 200 NYSC Members murdered across the north east this year as kidnapping escalates
‘’As earlier stated, every discerning mind knows that story, as well as that of today are both false. No Corps Member deployed to the North-East and North-West geo-political zones of the country was killed, neither was any abducted by bandits in July, 2021, as reported.
‘’Management would have ignored this story, but had to issue this rebuttal for the sake of undiscerning minds who may swallow the fake news, hook, line and sinker.
‘’Management hereby passionately appeals to both the mainstream and new media, as opinion moulders and critical stakeholders in the polity to always place national interest above every other consideration in their reportage, as anything contrary has the propensity to create apprehension in the minds of parents, guardians and other stakeholders.
‘’NYSC shall continue to prioritise the security and welfare of Corps Members which is the cardinal policy thrust of the Scheme.
