Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi Thursday said the violence that marred the 2011 elections in different parts of the country will not deter the Corps from deploying members for the 2015 elections.
According to him, NYSC is putting measures in place to protect the lives of the corps members.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Batch ‘C’ of the 2014 corps members deployed in Ondo State, Olawumi said lessons learnt from the 2011 elections will be used to forestall a recurrence.
“The decision for corps members to take part in election was taken by government and for the simple reason that they are well dispersed all over the nooks and crannies of the country; and I want to state categorically that since corps members have started taken part in elections in Nigeria, our elections have continued to gain credibility.
“The agreement between NYSC and INEC still stands and what that means is that corp members will take part in 2015 elections all over Nigeria, as long as there will be election, they be part of it.
“However, I must state clearly that we are not sleeping, we have learnt from our past mistakes, we have studied what happened in the last election and have put measures in place for the safety and security of corp members,” he said.
Also speaking at the inauguration, Ondo State coordinator of the NYSC, Alhaji Olanrewaju Kuoye said 2400 corps members were deployed in the state, but 2395 had registered as of the commencement of the ceremony.
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