Develop personal relationship with your kidnappers, NYSC tells corps members in their yearly handbook which was shared among respective corps members.
The Security Awareness and Education Handbook for Corps Members distributed at youth camps March 2021 details what corps members should do while in captivity, such as refraining from divulging their employers’ information and it was quoted that
- Corps members should not antagonize their captors, be polite and operate with reasonable regards.
- Corps members should keep caution of their environment and refrain from commenting to the media after their release without “official clearance.”
- Lastly, corps members should establish a personal relationship with your captors as early as possible.
Although NYSC management denied distributing the manual, describing its circulation as fake news.
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In recent times, the NYSC scheme usefulness has been brought into question year after year, as deaths are recorded while members make their way to respective campgrounds and others are subject to unsafe living and travelling conditions. The manual instead recommended that close friends and family information may be revealed to negotiations for their release.
Below are screenshots of the handbook.
A verified source had reported that the paramilitary programme had advised its members to be ready to pay ransoms in the likely event of being abducted. Corps members were urged to inform their family members and friends before embarking on a road trip.
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In conclusion, NYSC had appealed to the Federal Road Safety Corps, transport unions and other stakeholders in the transport sector to identify safe routes that can be used to convey corps members to their camps.
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