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The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC), Maharazu Tsiga, has expressed worry over the attack on youth corps
members who served as ad hoc staff to Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) in some Northern parts of Nigeria after the presidential election.

Mr Tsiga, who spoke to journalists at the weekend in Abuja
during the wedding ceremony of his daughter, Lubabatu, said the NYSC has begun
a head-count of all corps members in the affected areas in order to ascertain
the number of victims in the crisis.

“I am celebrating my daughter today with mixed feelings because
I have my youth corps members in all parts of this country who were involved in
the post-election crisis and some of them may have lost their lives, though we
are yet to confirm the numbers which shall be made public immediately we finish
the head-count of our members,” he said.

The NYSC boss said it was disheartening that despite all the
commendations given to the corps members’ participation in the exercise
nationally and internationally, the rioters decided to attack the innocent
youth.

Ondo evacuates indigenes

The Ondo State government at the weekend embarked on the
evacuation of about four hundred of its indigenes that were stranded in the
north following the violence that erupted in some states.

Out of the evacuees, 276 of were corps members serving the
country under the National Youth Service Corps.

The first set of evacuees arrived Akure, the state capital
yesterday and were subsequently transferred to their respective local
governments and hometowns.

The Permanent Secretary in charge of emergency management,
Kehinde Temikotan, said the state government could not close its eyes and allow
indigenes of the state to be killed over political issues.

“Indigenes of the state residing in Kano, Katsina Kaduna and
Borno states have been directed to converge on Bauchi for easy evacuation,” he
said.

According to him, some of those evacuated would be dropped at
Abuja where some of them have their relatives, while others would be brought to
Akure, the state capital.