NYSC Lagos to provide 20,000 corps members for election...Nelo O.

The Lagos State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Prince Mohammed Momoh, has said the scheme would present a list of over 19,000 corps members to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to participate in election duty today.

In an interview at the closing of the orientation programme for Batch C Stream II corps members yesterday, Momoh said once corps members who apply for redeployment to Lagos are settled, the list would grow to over 20,000 that would work as ad-hoc staff of INEC for the 2019 elections.

“INEC has said we should send the list of corps members on December 14th but we are sending it tomorrow (today) because we worked well ahead of time.  Before the election we will have well over 20,000 that can be deployed for the election.  Even those that are being relocated to Lagos, the moment they settle down, we will upload their names and send to them,” he said.

The NYSC Coordinator said during the camp, the Batch C Stream II corps members got preliminary training on the roles they would play during the election, including how to use the card reader.  He said more training would follow soon, assuring the corps members of their safety during the elections.