NYSC pulls out of Rivers’ Saturday rerun. Says Our Youths Can't Be Killed For Nothing

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NYSC pulls out of Rivers’ Saturday rerun 
 The Acting Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner (Operations), Ahmed Magaji, said adequate security would be provided for free, fair and credible polls.
Magaji pledged the neutrality of the Police. As State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Omotayo Adewoye said the youths would not be available for the exercise.

Adewoye said: “I am just one month old in this state. When I received the letter calling for 300 interested youth corps members to come up for training to participate in the conduct of the elections in Etche, being quiet aware of the Memorandum of Understanding between INEC and NYSC, and knowing that I was not a signatory to the agreement, I had the course to approach my national headquarters in Abuja.

“While I did that, I contacted the field officer in Etche where the election is going to hold to get members ready for the training which started on Monday to equip them fir the exercise.
“However, I am standing here today(yesterday), to inform you that NYSC will not take part in the exercise because of the obvious reason of violence in the last elections in the state in which we lost one of our youths.
“I have duly contacted my headquarters and I have been asked to stay action in the matter.”

Politicians from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) traded blames on the cause of election violence.
APC candidate for the House of Representatives Ogbonnaya Wuke and his colleague for the House of Assembly, Golden Chioma, accused the PDP of holding meetings with political thugs to disrupt the process.
The PDP House of Representatives candidate, Chief Jerome Eke, appealed to the police to allow a level-playing field at the polls.

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