Members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been called upon to take an active role in combating insecurity, including terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, cultism, and political thuggery, across the country.
The appeal was made on Tuesday at the NYSC orientation camp in Bauchi by the Northeast Zonal Coordinator of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW), Major General Abubakar Adamu (retd.).
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The NCCSALW, established in 2021 under the Office of the National Security Adviser, serves as the national framework for regulating and controlling small arms and light weapons.
Represented by Adamu Saleh, Assistant Director of Strategic Communication and Information at the Northeast Zonal Centre, General Adamu urged corps members to report any incidents involving the proliferation, fabrication, or illegal use of firearms.
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“Without the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, there will be no banditry, violence, cultism, political thuggery, Boko Haram, ISWAP and others,” he stated.
He emphasised that youth involvement is critical to eradicating insecurity, adding that corps members should serve as ambassadors for their families, the NYSC, and their states.
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The NCCSALW also proposed the creation of a Small Arms and Light Weapons Community Development Service (CDS) group in Bauchi State, modelled after a similar initiative in Borno State. The group would be trained and funded by the centre to educate communities on curbing illegal arms.
Responding, Bauchi State NYSC Coordinator Umoren Kufre welcomed the initiative and pledged to collaborate with the NCCSALW to establish the CDS group in the state.
