Corps member targets jobs of people fleeing from Boko Haram

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BY ABUBAKAR H. MUHAMMAD, OCTOBER 22, 2021 | 04:37


Bamidele Folorunsho Solomon, a passing-out National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, member in Maiduguri said he came to serve in Borno State targeting, if nothing, fleeing people’s vacant job space.

Even as he has now completed his service, he told YERWA EXPRESS NEWS that he is not ready to go back home.

He said since people are fleeing the city as a result of the Boko Haram crisis, it means there would be a lot of job opportunities.

‘I said to myself that okay since people are running away from Maiduguri, there would be opportunities, and that is how I decided to come and serve in Maiduguri.

‘But when I came here, everything is totally different, I thought there would be few people, houses burnt everywhere, abandoned houses and cars and things like that, but everything is moving fine,’ Solomon, a Kogi State indigene, who is a resident of Jigawa State said.

He said he is still planning to stay in the city and look for a job.

‘I am fully ready to stay in Maiduguri unless something came up somewhere, I don’t want to go back home and stay idle, because even the little that I have saved during the service would be spent anyhow.

‘I have already secured an accommodation and I am negotiating on a job offer, the offer is not suitable for me but we are still talking about it,’ he said.

At the NYSC secretariat, about 566 members of the scheme, 2021 Batch B, passed out.


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