By Luke Onyekakeyah
The reported death of a member of the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC), Chioma Eunice Igweike, who was allegedly abducted and later found
dead with vital parts of her body missing has added to the long list of
innocent and promising youths who have lost their lives on account of being
called to serve their fatherland under the now lackluster NYSC scheme. There is
no doubt that under the alarming and frightening insecurity situation, the NYSC
scheme is an aberration, which ought not to be because it exposes youths to
danger that pervades the entire country. No place is safe in Nigeria.
Government ought to have reviewed the scheme with a view to
scraping it, given the highly volatile situation in the country. Besides, the
conditions that warranted the establishment of the NYSC no longer exist. It is
only for selfish reasons that the scheme is allowed to run because some top
government officials are reaping huge benefits from it on the grave of those
being killed. This is insensitive and unpatriotic, to say the least.
Reports
say Chioma Eunice Igweike left her house on Wednesday, July, 20, 2022, for the
three weeks orientation course at the Ogun State NYSC camp. Her friends and
former course mates said the Federal Polytechnic Oko graduate
was kidnapped and killed by suspected ritualists and dumped somewhere.
