Finally! Heavy security in place as NYSC reopens Adamawa camp ~ Zeniths Blog

Finally! Heavy security in place as NYSC reopens Adamawa camp

– After being shut down due to Boko Haram attacks in 2013, Adamawa NYSC camp reopened on Tuesday, January 24

– The camp is currently heavily guarded by 300 security officials

– The camp is expected to accommodate 2,500 corp members

Adamawa orientation camp of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has resumed orientation after being shut down for 3 years due to Boko Haram insurgency.

Vanguard reported that the state coordinator of NYSC, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, said 2, 500 corps members were deployed to the state.

Adamawa NYSC camp reopens with heavy security for corp members

Abubakar said: “Registration of corp members started this Tuesday morning by 7 am and you can see they are trooping in; we are expecting 2, 500 corp members.”

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Abubakar said that adequate security has been put in place with about 300 officials from the army, police, department of state security, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) and NYSC.

He explained that Adamawa government has provided the facility of Adamawa state Polytechnic, Yola, as a temporary camp pending the final evacuation of the Internally Displaced Persons at the permanent

orientation camp in Damare.

He said: “I want the corps members to understand that this is a borrowed camp and should therefore bear with the available facilities.”

While lauding Adamawa government for it support towards a successful orientation, the coordinator urged the people of Adamawa to continue to support and show hospitality to corp members.

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Meanwhile, the 19 northern governors of Northern Governor Forum under the chairmanship of Governor Kashim Shettima held a meeting on Monday, Janaury 23, to decide the best way to end Boko Haram and Herdsmen attacks in the northern region of Nigeria.

Shettima while declaring the meeting open, said the north, a once most thriving region, has been reduced to nothing, saying that “there is no gainsaying the fact that the North is now a poor, pathetic shadow of its former self.”