The National Service Scheme (NSS) has apologized to service personnel who were recently manhandled by the police and military at various NSS registration centres across the country.
In a press release dated Tuesday, July 25, 2017, the scheme wrote:
“It has come to the notice of the Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) that some national service personnel who were at some of the NSS registration centres to register for the 2017/2018 service year were manhandled by the police and military personnel who were detailed to maintain law and order.
“Management wishes to state that the incidents are regrettable, and therefore wishes to apologize to all such national service personnel and the general public for the recorded incidents of congestion which led to the manhandling.
Management has put in place measures to ease the congestion and therefore wishes to appeal to all national service personnel to remain calm and go through the registration process smoothly.”
The press release was signed by the Acting Executive Director of NSS, Hon. Ussif Mustapha.
