Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has been accused of rendering some members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the state homeless. Human rights activist, Harrison Gwamnishu, posted a video of the deplorable state in which corps members posted to Asaba were living.
It was gathered that the Delta State Government built an ultra-modern hostel for corps members, which was supposed to serve as shelter for youths serving their father’s land in the state. However, six months after the building was constructed by the state governor, it was not handed over to the National Youth Service Corps organizers.
Despite the fact that some of the corps members were posted to different ministries in the state, no preparation was made for their accommodation. They were only sent to the hostel which is still under lock and key to be staying there. The helpless corps members turned the front of the building to their bedrooms and living rooms. They have been sleeping for several months in the open space with no government officials or state coordinator of the scheme coming to their rescue. Some of them who attempted to get an accommodation on their own were discouraged by the exorbitant cost. Most of them had no other choice than to return to the lodge.
At the lodge, they bathed in the open and all their luggage and personal effects were left in the open space too. Student mattresses and mats without pillows were the only comfortable sleeping item they could lay their hands on while mosquitoes and reptiles have been their companions in the last couple of months they have spent in the state. All efforts made by the corps membersto collect the key to the lodge proved abortive.
