According to Ogun, several corps members and prospective corps members have fallen victim to abductions while travelling to or serving in states far from their homes.
Human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, has threatened legal action against the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), accusing the agency of endangering the lives of corps members by posting them to states outside their places of residence amid Nigeria’s worsening insecurity.
Ogun, Senior Partner at FO Legal, said the continued deployment of corps members to unfamiliar states, often requiring travel through dangerous routes plagued by kidnappers and bandits, amounts to a violation of their constitutional right to life.
In a post on his Facebook page, the lawyer argued that the policy had become untenable given the country’s security challenges.
“It is unconstitutional for NYSC to continue dispatching young people on a journey of no return. It potentially violates the right to life guaranteed under Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution,” he said.
