Re:Nearly 200 NYSC members murdered across the northeast this year as kidnapping escalates

By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu

Abuja

The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has asked the general public  to dismiss the story that 200 corps members were murdered in a year in the northeast as fake and  unsubstantiated.

A statement from the office of the Director-General of NYSC, Brig-General Shuaibu Ibrahim said,

“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 had been murdered in Zamfara and Kaduna states, while 376 others were abducted across the Northeast within a 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.”

General Ibrahim said the scheme is always open to enquiries, in order to guard against feeding the public with inaccurate, or completely false information, 

and  reassured the general public that it would continue to work in concert with security agencies in order to ensure the safety of corps members across the nation.