Some graduates of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, on Tuesday, peacefully protested their deployment to Nigeria’s troubled northern region by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Numbering about 20, and with placards in hand, the protesters took their grudge to the State House of Assembly, Ikeja and some media houses within Lagos.
With some of the placards reading, ‘Congratulate our parents, don’t condole them’, ‘We reject to be killed’, ‘Many corps members were killed last year, have we forgotten so soon?’, the protesters vowed not to report to their states of deployment.
In a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House and delivered on behalf of LASU Students’ Union, the school’s branch of the Senior Staff Union of Universities (SSANU), the State branch of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and mobilised graduates of the NYSC, the protesters appealed to the state lawmakers to “intervene by ensuring the redeployment” of corps members affected by the latest posting.
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