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After the shutdown of orientation camps across the country, there have been insinuations that either a Corps member or a camp official had contracted the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in camp, but management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has come out to state the contrary.
Following shutdown of the NYSC orientation camps across the country, insinuations were that either a Corps member or a camp official had contracted COVID-19 as reason the camps were shutdown, but management of NYSC has stated that “no Corps Member or Camp Official has contracted the virus” as reason camps were shutdown.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) exclusively reported in the early hours of Wednesday the FG ordering immediate closure of all orientation camps in the country where 2020 Batch “A” Stream 1 Corps Members were undergoing the three weeks compulsory orientation course.
In a statement NYSC published on its official Facebook page following the order, management of the scheme said shutting down of camps across the country was similar to the step the federal government (FG) took a few years ago when the nation was confronted by the Ebola virus threat.
NYSC revealed in the statement the 2020 Batch “A” Stream 1 Corps Members “shall be posted to commence their primary assignments forthwith, while they shall be invited back to the Orientation Camps when the situation improves, just like it happened a few years ago when the Nation was confronted by the Ebola virus threat”.
Recall that NYSC recently mobilized graduates for the 2020 Batch ‘A’ orientation course. The orientation exercise according to the NYSC calendar started on March 10 and was supposed to end on March 30 when corps members would have been posted to their various places of primary assignment.
However, due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, the FG was forced to end the orientation course abruptly nationally to contain the spread of the virus since the scheme also accommodates foreign students.
“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 ordering shutdown of all orientation camps across the country read.