The National Youth Service Corps has asked the police and operatives of the Department of State Services to arrest and prosecute some robbers who wore corpers’ uniform when they attacked commuters in Okene, Kogi State, last Friday.The NYSC demanded that the robbers be apprehended and prosecuted.It added that it would also enforce the weight of the law on film-makers and comedians who used its uniform as costumes without permission.
The scheme’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, who stated this yesterday, noted that the NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, had ordered corps members to always go about with their identity cards.Mrs. Adeyemi said that some robbers had been reported to have attacked a bus conveying a Football Club’s players and coaching crew, during which the driver was shot.She noted that the robbers attacked the club’s bus which was heading for Kano State for a Nigeria Professional Football League match and killed the driver while some members of the team were also injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.
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