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Jalingo NYSC Attack: Journalists Demand Investigation, Attackers Arrest

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Following Thursday’s attack on some youth corps members in Jalingo,
Taraba State, the Young Journalists Forum (JYF) has called on the
state government to immediately investigate the matter and bring the
assailants to book in four days.

In a statement signed by its Secretary, Zacheaus Somorin, JYF stated
that the state Governor, like his counterparts within the region,
always play lip service to the protection and security of the corps
members saying the attack would have been another major national
tragedy.
Somorin pointed out that the state, instead of employing teachers, like
its counterparts, use corps members, on a yearly basis, to fill the
gaps despite which they are poorly paid and exposed to danger.

”Thursday’s attack would have been another major tragedy in the
history of Nigeria. It gives credence to the reality that some parts
in North are not safe to engage youth corps members” the statement
said.

It added: ‘what is also curious and dangerous was the religious
coloration that the attack depicted. Why was RCCG hostel isolated for
attack? It means that the attackers were blood-thirsty religious
extremist as the attack took the same format through which christians
have been hewn down in the North.

The attackers had reportedly stormed the Family House of the Redeemed
Christian Corpers Fellowship (RCCF), held the corps members hostage
for hours, taking away laptops and about 24 mobile telephone sets.

The gunmen were said to have gained entrance into the members lodge
through a toilet in the female wing of the building.

While making reference to various incidents in which many corps
members have been killed in the north, the groups expressed its
disappointment at the continued deployment of corps members to
volatile areas in the region accusing government at various levels
feigning ignorance of the dangerous situation.

Somorin therefore called on the state governor, Dambata Suntai, to
fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice within four days
failure which will compel the group to drag the state to court
demanding corps members’ redeployment to safer states.

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