The Benue State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Veronica Garba, has announced that Corps members in crisis-affected areas have been relocated to family houses in Makurdi for their safety.
Garba disclosed this during an interview with journalists on Thursday in Wannune, located in Tarka Local Government Area of Benue State.
She explained that upon receiving reports of the unrest, the NYSC promptly evacuated Corps members from the Yelewata and Daudu communities.
The evacuated members, she said, were immediately accommodated in NYSC family houses, including facilities provided by the Nigeria Corpers Christian Fellowship (NCCF), the National Association of Catholic Corps Members (NACCM), and the Muslim Corpers Association of Nigeria (MCAN).
“We do not joke with the safety of our corps members because we take them as our children so as soon as we heard about the crisis, we contacted the Commissioner of Police who detailed his officers to help us evacuate our corps members.
“We then did our head count and none was missing so we arranged with the heads of all the family houses and got them settled in Makurdi for now pending when the situation will improve,” she said.
The coordinator urged parents to be calm, saying that their children were safe. She assured parents that with the relocation of security chiefs to Benue, the situation would improve.
“I am sure that the parents of our Corps members have heard that all the security chiefs have moved to Benue so they have no reason to fear.
“Above all, God who is the safest security is everywhere; He is with your children too,” Garba said.