No-Trouser Corps Member Wasn’t Thrown Out At Night – NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps says Miss Damilola Ekundayo was ejected from orientation camp because she refused to wear the service kits including trousers. Ekundayo was sent out of the Sagamu Orientation Camp penultimate Friday following her refusal to wear the prescribed NYSC kits. The NYSC said Ekundayo’s action contravened the law regulating and prescribing the dress code for all members of the scheme.

Coordinator of NYSC in Ogun, Mrs. Theresa Anosike, said Ekundayo’s refusal to wear the kits, including the khaki trousers at the camp and her insistence on putting on only skirts for the compulsory one-year programme contradicted Section 3 subsection (h) of the scheme’s 2012 bye-laws.

Female Youth corper asked to leave NYSC camp for refusing to wear trousers

Reactions have started trailing the decamping of 2013 Batch A, Female corps member, Ms Tolu Ekundayo, by the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Ogun State for wearing skirt at the Shagamu orientation camp.

In a press conference organised by Ekundayo’s church, Faith Revival Apostolic Church, FRAC, in Lagos, the expelled corps member  said she was asked to leave the camp at about 11.00pm on March 8, 2013 by the Ogun State NYSC Co-ordinator, for her refusal to put on trousers.

She explained that her refusal to wear trousers was not in disobedience to NYSC authorities but in line with her belief and faith in God.