Police rescue corps members, others kidnapped in Ondo

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Sixteen members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Anambra are to repeat their service year while three others will serve various terms of disciplinary measures. The Anambra NYSC Coordinator, Mr Ebenezer Olawale, who made the disclosure on Thursday in Awka, said no formal passing out ceremony was held in the state. Olawale added that certificates were issued at the various local government NYSC offices. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 2, 158 corps members successfully concluded their service year and were issued with discharge certificates. NAN also reports that seven deserving corps members won the Governor’s Award, while four went home with the Chairman’s Award as the youth members passed out on Thursday. The coordinator congratulated the outgoing corps members but regretted that 19 of them were to face disciplinary measures, with 16 repeating their service, while three would serve extension of between two and four months. On the upcoming Nov. 18 governorship polls in Anambra, the NYSC coordinator said that the body still had enough manpower to take care of its expected role in the election. “There are no fewer than 8,000 corps members currently serving in the state,’’ he said. Olawale noted that his office would work with the NYSC offices in neighboring states to Anambra to take care of any shortfall in the provision of personnel for the election. He said the discharged corps members who wished to take part in the election were at liberty to stay back but no one was under compulsion to do so. Meanwhile, the Director-General of the NYSC Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, will visit Anambra to address corps members ahead of the governorship election. Olawale told NAN that Kazuaure would hold a one-day interface with the corps members on Nov. 7 alongside heads of other security agencies in Anambra at the Alex Ekweme Square in Awka. According to him, the director-general’s visit was largely to speak to the corps members who would serve in ad-hoc capacity during the election on the need for them to be neutral. (NAN)

The Ondo State Police Command said it had rescued all the Corps members kidnapped by bandits along the Benin-Owo Expressway.

The kidnappers, numbering about 15, armed with AK-47 rifles, were said to have accosted the Sienna bus conveying the travellers, who include corps members, at about 11 pm last Friday at Omi Alafa Village in Ifon, Ose LGA, and dragged the victims into the forest.

It was gathered that the driver and one traveller sitting in front of the vehicles were shot dead by the bandits.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the release of the victims to our correspondent on Monday.

The PPRO said, “We have rescued all the victims, I will issue a press statement on the development shortly.”

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