The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed that two corps members who were kidnapped in Zamfara have been released.
Eddy Megwa, the Director of Press and Public Relations for the scheme, made the announcement on Thursday.
The corps members were abducted while travelling from Uyo, Akwa Ibom, to Sokoto State in an Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) bus for their mandatory National Service.
Out of the 11 people who were kidnapped, three were able to escape during the abduction, leaving eight and the driver taken into the bush.
Megwa reported that one person was rescued on September 1, another on October 20, and the newest two on Thursday. Four members, however, are still missing.
“Yesterday, we were all excited to hear that two of our prospective corps members, who were kidnapped in the Zamfara saga, were rescued by the military,” he said on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
“It’s a thing to be happy; it’s hope for all of us and the family. Even the remaining four—two girls and two boys—will still be rescued very soon.
“It’s been worrisome for us in the scheme over this number of months that these young ones that are coming up to serve their Fatherland were kidnapped,” he said.
According to him, the discharged corps members are receiving medical treatment and will be reunited with their families and continue their national duty once they restore strength.
“Yesterday, we also had two out of the den of the kidnappers, and they are in the hospital getting medical attention. I want to believe that once they are strong, they will reunite with their families and get on with their national service,” he said.
Megwa reaffirmed the NYSC’s commitment to achieving the safe release of the other four kidnappers.
“The DG told the entire nation that we will stop at nothing to ensure that these prospective corps members are rescued unhurt, and that is what we have,” the press director said.
“What just happened is that there is hope for the remaining four, who are still in the kidnappers’ den.
“This kidnapping issue is everywhere, and the only thing we need to do is take precautionary measures so that we don’t run into this bane of the underworld.”
