A total of 2,868 National Youths Service Corps members are expected to participate in the conduct of the upcoming 2019 general elections in Zamfara State, an official has said. “We have so far recorded 2,868 corps members, who indicated their interest to partake in the upcoming general elections in the state. He has since directed us to make sure that our corps members are not posted to insecurity-prone places. “You know in NYSC posting policy, we don’t send corps members to areas with security threat, therefore we don’t even have corps members currently serving in those areas”, he said. Mohammad, however, charged corps members to consider the election exercise as a national assignment and put the national interest first while conducting the exercise.

Source: Punch January 22, 2019 15:49 UTC