Ebola: NYSC members threaten boycott

Members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State, have threatened to boycott the national service if there is an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), among them. The youth corps members, who expressed fear over the havoc the disease could cause among the fresh graduates, especially at the orientation camp and parade grou
nd, told Shalloma's Blog that they could not sacrifice their lives after many years of suffering to become graduates.
A female corps member, who preferred anonymity said: “The moment I discover there is such a disease, I will leave because nobody would like to contract such disease. I don’t want to die. You know prevention is better than cure.”
Speaking in the same vein, a male corps member, Mr. Arinze Ikegbunam, said the development was disturbing and harped on the need for some precautionary steps. “Ebola is something you can­not run away from.
“All you could is to al­ways take precautionary mea­sures, because you cannot tell whether the next person standing or sitting beside you has been infected.
“The best you can do, is to take precaution and pray that God should not let you contract it; that is all. Govern­ment is trying but more efforts should be made to keep sensi­tising the public, so that they can bring a lot of vaccines that can cure this deadly disease,” he said.
Miss Oyintade Fagbaro, however, pointed out that the authorities of the NYSC had put a lot of measures in place to ensure that there was no outbreak of EVD among the youth corps members.