Missing - NYSC Member Found

This news has it that the National Youth Service Corps has said it would begin to sanction corps members who abscond from the location of their national service.


The NYSC issued the threat in reaction to the case of a corps member, Akeem Afolabi Adekunle, deployed to Akwa Ibom State and posted to Itam Secondary School in Itu Local Government Area.

Adekunle had been declared ‘missing’ some months ago but was found with his family members in
Lagos after allegedly absconding from his place of primary assignment.


A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations of NYSC, Mrs. Bose Aderibigbe, said Adekunle abandoned his place of primary assignment three months ago and had been with his family members since then, without reporting to the authorities.

According to her, the team set up by the Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Olawumi, visited the family of the missing corps member to unravel the circumstances leading to his disappearance only to discover that he was with his family members.