Aboh Victoria Otsanya, who was posted to Lagos State for the mandatory one-year National Service and supposed to partake in a 3-week orientation exercise, claimed she and other married women were not allowed to stay in camp.
According to her, it did not matter if they were not pregnant or nursing a child, all married woman were not permitted to stay at the orientation camp located in Iyana Ipaja.
She wrote on Tuesday, June 21,
“Iyana-lpaja orientation camp Lagos, married women are not allowed to camp weather pregnant or not, weather nursing mother or not non of us is allowed to stay in the camp.”
A while ago, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Gombe State has confirmed that a female corps member was evicted from the orientation camp in Amada for refusing to wear khaki trousers.
In a statement released on Friday, March 25, the state coordinator, Ada Imoni, stated the corps member “blatantly refused to wear the khaki trouser and instead opted to wear a khaki skirt.”
“She was made to face the camp court, found guilty and subsequently decamped in accordance to the provisions of the NYSC Bye-laws”. Imoni added.
