The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has debunked the story that is trending on social media that a serving corps member in Zamfara State was assaulted and tortured with severe wounds on his back.
The NYSC in a statement by its Director of Information and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa said the attention of the Management of the National Youth Service Corps has been drawn to a malicious and misleading story with a photograph in the media space claiming that Corps Member Michael Uwakwe, was assaulted at his place of Primary Assignment – Nasara Standard Academy, Gusau in Zamfara State, by a policeman for punishing a student.
The statement also said that to put the records straight, the fake story first hit the media space on March 8, 2017, in which the NYSC Management strongly condemned the damaging story in its entirety, because there was no report of such incident involving any of our Corps Member across the country.
It added that the claim by the writer of the story is nothing but a reckless assemblage of ill-intentioned, unguarded and unprofessional reportage.
The Statement noted that the National Youth Service Corps as a responsible and youth-friendly government establishment places high priority on the welfare and security of its Corps members in their places of primary assignment and host communities.
This has been the tradition of the Scheme for the past fifty-one years of its existence.
The statment further noted that members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm, especially online bloggers are by the notice enjoined to dissociate from yellow journalism, especially against the NYSC, but uphold the tenets of objective reportage on the Scheme’s laudable achievements to national unity and integration.
The statement urged the general public, especially parents, guardians, serving and Prospective Corps Members to ignore the ill-conceived publication in its entirety.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
