A cartel in Minna, the Niger State capital, has turned National Youths
Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp into a recruitment ground for
“young prostitutes.”
The cartel, according to findings, consists
of elitist group; politicians, journalists with the active connivance of
some NYSC officials, who approve the requests of the cartel to post
selected female Corps members to a particular government agency, boards
and parastatals.
The unsuspecting female Corps members soon
succumb to their wishes after promises of not only posting them to
Government House or choice areas with mouth-watering incentives,
including furnishing house for them to stay throughout the duration of
their one year national service for sexual satisfaction.
Selected/recruitied
Corps members by the cartel from the Paiko NYSC Camp are always
included on the list of those posted to serve in the Protocol
Department, Government House to cover their tracks, the source said.
As
a way of rewarding the girls, parties to celebrate birthdays by each of
them are organised if they wished, end of their service year is usually
celebrated for them as they are quickly replaced with new intakes
almost immediately by the cartel, Daily Independent reports.
To avoid the
prying eyes of unsuspecting public, the male partners under the cover of
being part of the Government House Corpers’ lodge behind the Idris
Legbo Kutigi International conference centre, Minna visit their partners
in the unholy act at odd hours.
Investigations reveal that the
dislodgement of the journalists and their politician collaborators from
the Government House Corpers’ Lodge began when they started having
issues among themselves and their activities became an open secret.
This, the source said, almost cost one of the protocol officers in
government house his job.
Reacting to the developments in an
interview, Niger State NYSC coordinator, Mr. Steven Ehoda-Adi, said that
he was not aware of any such cartel existing in the state.
Steven
however told our correspondent that the NYSC in the state ensures
proper documentations for Corps members deployed to government and
recognized corperate organizations when it becomes absolutely necessary
with reasons in accordance with the laws establishing the NYSC.
Steven
however added that the NYSC has little or no control over the private
life of Corps members. He said, “I am not aware of any cartel recruiting
Corps members for the purpose of prostitution. I am rather shocked
hearing that some of your colleagues, journalists are actively involved
in this unholy act”.