Corps Member Shares 2 Warnings NYSC Reportedly Gave Them after Raye's Viral Video about Tinubu

• A Lagos National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Ushie Rita Uguamaye, known on social media as Raye, is trending online for criticising President Tinubu
• Raye's criticism of the president and tagging Lagos as a "smelling state" has been met with mixed feelings, with many Nigerians throwing their weight behind her
• However, a female corps member said Raye's action has made NYSC where she serves to issue her and her colleagues two strict warnings and an Akwa Ibom corps member has shared with Legit.ng his thoughts on his colleague's tweet

A female corps member, @dii_imma, has shared two strict warnings NYSC gave her and her mates following Raye's rant against President Tinubu and Lagos state, which has made her the talk of social media.

In a tweet on X, @dii_imma disclosed that corps members were told to "put their phones down."

She added that they were also given strict warnings about making utterances against the government if they want their certificates after completing their service. She tweeted:

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"They told everybody to put down their phones and gave us strict warning about speaking about the government if we want to collect our certificates. Oya nau."

In the comment section, the corps member marvelled that they summoned corps members under the guise of sharing rice to them, only to give them warnings and order them home.

"What’s funny is they told us to wait that they wanted to share rice for corpers only for them to address us with this and tell us to go home."

Akwa Ibom corps member reacts

Speaking with Legit.ng, an Akwa Ibom corps member who pleaded anonymity, frowned at the directives, wondering if there is still freedom of speech in the country. In his words:

"This shows how captured we are in this country that even young people can no longer speak their mind.

"We have freedom of speech, but do we really have freedom after speech? Now, I understand the argument of NYSC being paramilitary and that you’re not supposed to talk against the government or the commander in chief, but we are in a dire situation, and all we have is our voice and if we lose that, then we’re cooked."

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Corps member's tweet about warning stirs reactions

@Chemmer_F said:

"If people can't rebel against oppression in their youth, they'll never rebel in their latter years.

"I fear that they've succeeded in caging many young people in this country for life.

"All that energy, all that vigour, yet people can't stand for anything."

@Ashokoto said:

"You should have recorded for us.

"Me and you would have shared my own certificate, it's sitting down useless somewhere under the box 😂."

@MonsieurEmmy1 said:

"No civil disobedience! This would have been a golden opportunity for everybody to go home and start speaking up. Dare them to deny everybody the nysc certificate."

@phireman_ said:

"Your certificate is out and ready since your POP in camp ; when you receive it you will see the date on it as that of when you did POP from your NYSC orientation camp , and it's in your states nysc main secretariat, if you don't even collect it on that day, you can go to abuja."

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@Ezedavid1994 said:

"In their view, if they can tame NYSC members, they've tamed over 180M hungry Nigerians."

@mowaseife said:

"Talk about the 77k that was promised…NO🤐.

"Threaten people about speaking up…that’s where they’ll find their voice.

"Useless people."

@UTDobiya said:

"I am sure someone must have recorded it still even after being told to put down phones 😂."

@Ehbukha said:

“Someone slept. before sleeping, he requested that they should wake him up from sleep when the country gets better, he die from the sleep.”

Corper apologises for calling Lagos "smelling state"

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the viral NYSC member Ushie Rita Uguamaye had apologised for calling Lagos a "smelling state."

In a statement, the young lady clarified that her remarks were not intended to ridicule the state or Lagosians.

In a viral video, the corps member had openly criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing him as a "terrible president". She also stated that Lagos has an unpleasant odour.

Source: Legit.ng