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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management has shut down all the orientation camp nationwide over the spread of coronavirus.
The directive as exclusively reported by TheNEwsGuru earlier today, which came from the NYSC headquarters in Abuja early Wednesday morning disrupted the orientation camp of the 2020 Batch A Stream 1, across the 37 centres in the country.
The major reasons the NYSC camps were closed was contained in a statement sent to all the State Coordinators (SCs):
The statement reads in full:
To all SCs; I have received instructions to inform you to bring the ongoing Orientation Course to an immediate shutdown; effective tomorrow on account of the rapid-fire spread of COVID-19. Effect Primary Assignment postings this night. All necessary financial entitlements will be settled in the early hours of tomorrow.
You are to, by any means, reach Corps Employers on this development; immediately.
This obvious course of action is dictated by circumstances far beyond what can be controlled. The rapid changes in very many countries warranting social distancing between persons and isolation of persons on account of COVID-19 present no other option; but to close the camps because of the large aggregation of persons in close social contacts.
With the abundance of caution, mitigation of errors is easily achievable. Further information/development shall be conveyed as directed. You’re to act with absolute dispatch, please,” the statement concluded.
In compliance with the directive,the Lagos State NYSC Coordinator, Eddy Megwa, told corps members during morning meditation on Wednesday the parade ground to leave the orientation camp as soon as possible.
“We have been asked to close down all orientation camps and discharged the corps members to their various places of primary assignment,” Megwa said.
He said the abrupt ending of the camp was part of preventive measures taken by NYSC against the spread of deadly coronavirus in the country.
The virus has killed over 7000 persons globally while three cases of the virus have been confirmed in Nigeria.
Megwa told corps members that the directive was passed to all the state coordinators early this morning to indefinitely shut down all orientation camps across the country.
“All corps members should avoid travelling, getting free rides from strangers, which could be detrimental to your lives,” Megwa told the corps members.
“You are expected to go back to your different residential address pending the time when all dust will be settled over this coronavirus.
“I want to believe it is to avert anything that could endanger the lives of the corps members and the staff of NYSC.”
NYSC had on Thursday 12 March performed the swearing-in ceremony for the 2020 Batch A, Stream 1 corps members, who came into the orientation camps on Tuesday 10 and were expected to leave on March 30.
The Stream 2 corps members were expected to resume camp on April 2.
All corps members would receive their transport allowance and letters for their places of primary assignment, as well as their identity cards before leaving the orientation camps.
They have also been told to report to their Local governments today.
Upon hearing the news the corps members jubilated, as they won’t be subjected to the military drills, which a lot of them dread.
A corps member, Esther Ajileye, said she was indifferent but happy that she did not have to undergo the stress of the military drills.
Another corps member Titi Odebiyi, a corp member in Lagos orientation camp said she was happy with the camp closure.
She said the reason for closing the camp showed the government has the wellbeing of the corps members at heart.
Recall that trained health personnel had screened corps members and other persons with infrared thermometers at the point of entry into the camp to guard against the possible contraction of coronavirus and Lassa fever within the orientation camps.
The Lagos State NYSC management also strengthened the preventive measures by putting water containers and hand sanitizers at various points at the orientation camp, while mandating all the staff, traders and corps members to wash their hands regularly.
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