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*As Ekiti urges redeployment of indigenes out of Bauchi<\/p>\n

BY VICTORIA OJEME<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABUJA-The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, after a meeting, weekend, refused to pay ransom for the release of five corps members kidnapped in Rivers State.<\/p>\n

The kidnappers had reportedly demanded N100 million to release the corps members.<\/p>\n

The meeting, chaired by the Director General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga to seek ways of dealing with the crisis, however, resolved to appeal to the kidnappers to release the corps members.
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Also, it has emerged that Ekiti State government had taken steps to ensure the posting out of Bauchi State of the state indigenes, who are\u00a0 corps members.<\/p>\n

The source confided in Vanguard that members in attendance at the meeting were unanimous that paying ransom might make the kidnap of corps members\u00a0 attractive, given their spread and presence\u00a0 in every corner of the country.<\/p>\n

The source who did not want his name in print, said:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe meeting chaired by the DG agreed on the need to secure the release of the kidnapped corps members by other means, other than paying ransom. The argument is that if ransom is paid now, what becomes of the fate of corps members\u00a0 posted to remote places without security.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cIt simply means that any criminal gang can seize hapless corps members\u00a0 and hold them for ransom to make\u00a0 easy money. We cannot afford to expose these young men and women serving the nation to this kind of danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The meeting, it was learnt, also sympathized with parents of the kidnapped corps members , but agreed without any objection to appeal to the conscience of the kidnappers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It was further learnt that the meeting took notice of\u00a0 moves by Ekiti State government to ensure that all corps members who are indigenes of the state, posted to Bauchi, were immediately deployed to other states outside the North.<\/p>\n

No fewer than seven\u00a0 corps members\u00a0 from Ekiti State lost their lives in the post-election violence that erupted in some parts of the country, making Ekiti State one with the\u00a0 highest number of casualties..<\/p>\n

The effort to ensure the posting out of Bauchi State new corps members from Ekiti State, the meeting was informed, was spearheaded by the State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka.<\/p>\n

The source informed Vanguard that the decision to take Ekiti\u00a0 them out of Bauchi State was informed by pressures from parents and guardians, who feared\u00a0 another outbreak of violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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