We sleep on bare floor, have no bathroom –Corps members at Niger NYSC camp

When Emeka Okechukwu, a corps member serving in Niger State, first got to Paiko, a town about 25 kilometres away from Minna, the capital city, he didn’t have any complaints. But that was before he arrived at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in the town.

On getting to the camp, Okechukwu’s first impression was that it was a huge eyesore which ought to be demolished. According to Okechukwu, the poor state of the orientation camp immediately made some corps members to regret coming to the state to serve their fatherland.

“I am not pleased that my colleagues and I have to be sleeping and sitting on bare floor in the camp,” he said.

Efforts to reach Jibrin Ndace, Chief Press Secretary to Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello, were not successful as he neither answered his calls nor returned them.

But a source in the Government House, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the state government was not happy that previous administrations in the state had failed to provide a befitting orientation camp for corps members.

The source said it was worrisome that after 40 years of its creation as a state, Niger could not boast of a permanent orientation camp.

The PUNCH, December 1, 2018

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