The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has withdrawn its corps members from the crisis affected areas in southern part of Taraba and redeployed them elsewhere.
Mrs Florence Yakuugh, NYSC Coordinator in Taraba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jalingo that the decision became imperative to provide safety for the youth corps members.
She said: ”A Directives from the national headquarters to redeploy the youth corps members serving in these crisis affected communities.
”We’ve redeployed them out of those crisis places and took them to local government headquarters in Wukari, Donga and Takum for their safety.
”We are appealing to the warring factions to embrace peace and allow development of their communities.
“It is only when there is peace that NYSC can contribute their quarter to the development of their father land, because NYSC is a unifying institution”.
The NYSC coordinator enjoined those local government areas that are located across rivers to acquire ‘life jackets’ for the safety of corps members posted to those areas.
Yaakugh said that the directive has become necessary to safeguard the corps who were not conversant with crossing large volume of water.
On July 31, authorities of Federal University, Wukari, Taraba, closed down the institution, following alleged abduction and killing of some students and staff of the institution due to the Jukun/Tiv ethnic crisis.
