Members of National Youth Corps, NYSC, serving in Benue State have embarked on enlightenment campaign on the fight against corruption at motor parks.
Youth Corps President of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offenses/National Anti Corruption Volunteers Corps, Dr Peter Iheanyi, with other corps members, urged the commercial drivers to always comply with traffic codes and possess vehicle papers to be able to stand their feet when confronted by security operatives on the high way.
The Corps members, including Komolafe Ayodele, Onyema Ngochi, and Ogangwu Pauline, who took turn to enlighten the commercial drivers, also charged them to obey the law of the land, through safe driving, possess fire extinguishers, vehicle papers and drive at accepted speed limit to save their lives and that of their passengers and themselves.
The corps members regretted that leaders alone should not be blamed for the decay in the society, adding that followers should also contribute their quota in nipping it and ensuring that the cankerworms they claimed is threatening the existence of the nation is also checked.
The state secretary of National Union Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Mr. Tafawa Balogun, commended the initiative of the corps members but regretted that the nation has lost its present generation to corruption, but expressed optimism that the coming generation with their campaign may restore hope back to the country.
Some of the drivers who spoke at the occasion blamed the officials of ICPC for not discharging their duties as expected, lamenting that the agency shields the political class but only beams searchlight on the downtrodden which makes their fight against corruption futile.
The drivers also complained of the security operatives, including the military officers deplored to highway but have turned the highways to gold mine by extorting money from them, even when their papers are complete.
The union charged the leaders to lead by example as they lamented the manner the political leaders in the country have plunged the nation backward worse than the colonial era.
In his response, the ICPC state office representative, Hassan Abubakar, tried to explain the numerous breakthroughs the commission had made in recent times, but urged the union to join hands with government to fight the cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the country.