Assembly rejects North for Lagos NYSC members

July 4, 2012 by Sesan Olufowobi 

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday rejected the posting of graduates from the state to the northern part of the country for their compulsory one-year national service.
The Chairman, Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Wahab Alawiye-King, made this known while receiving National Youth Service Corps members from the Lagos State University, who staged a demonstration to the Assembly on Tuesday.
The lawmaker said, “The House at its plenary yesterday (Monday) passed a resolution to the Director-General of the NYSC, urging him not to post students from Lagos State to unsafe northern states, where security of lives and properties cannot be guaranteed.”
He said the state was determined to protect people of the state, especially its youths, from danger.
He added that the government would resist any attempt by the NYSC to post any student from the state to troubled states for the service year.
The students had besieged the Assembly with placards with inscriptions such as ‘LASU says no to posting to the North, and ‘No service in Boko Haram States’, among others.
Spokesperson for the students, who is also the Chairman, Senior Staff Association of the university, Mrs. Sessi  Funmi, lamented the rate of killings and bombings in the northern part of the country, describing it as unbearable.
She said, “Our lawmakers should help to stop our graduates from being posted to these volatile states. The security of our youths cannot be guaranteed.”
In a related development, the Assembly has summoned the contractor handling the construction of Ariyo-Ira-Muwo-Tedi-Abule Oshun Bridge in Ojo Local Government Area over its failure to complete the project on schedule.