Corps members currently undergoing the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation programme at the Lagos State camp have raised a distress alarm over a severe and debilitating water crisis that is making life increasingly unbearable, threatening their health, and undermining the basic welfare standards expected at a federal government facility.
Dozens of corps members who spoke with CDA News Nigeria described a desperate situation in which clean water has become dangerously scarce, forcing many to go without adequate water for bathing, cooking, drinking, and basic sanitation — conditions they described as wholly unacceptable and unworthy of a national institution of the NYSC’s stature.
“We are suffering here. There is no water. We cannot bathe properly, we cannot cook, we cannot even flush the toilets. This is not what we expected,” one visibly distressed corps member lamented.
The water shortage, which has persisted for several days according to sources within the camp, has raised serious public health concerns, with medical personnel at the camp reportedly overwhelmed by complaints related to dehydration, skin infections, and poor sanitation conditions linked directly to the acute water scarcity.
Fellow corps members have taken to social media to amplify their plight, with videos and testimonies from inside the Lagos NYSC camp going viral and generating widespread public sympathy and condemnation of the deteriorating welfare conditions.
Civil society groups and youth advocates have called on the NYSC Directorate, the Lagos State Government, and the Federal Ministry of Youth Development to immediately intervene, deploy water tankers, and undertake urgent repairs to the camp’s water supply infrastructure to restore normalcy and protect the health of corps members.
The NYSC Lagos State Coordinator is yet to issue an official response to the corps members’ complaints, even as frustration and health concerns continue to mount inside the camp.
Nigerians across social media platforms have expressed outrage, calling on authorities to treat the welfare of corps members as a matter of urgent national priority.
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