Embattled Senator, Stella Oduah, has given the National Youth Service Corps Director-General 48 hours notice to withdraw his position in a letter she was mobilised for the national service scheme, but absconded without completing the service year.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2022\/05\/stella-oduah-in-trouble-as-nysc-alleges-she-absconded-40-years-ago\/<\/p>\n
Recall that in reply to a letter from a group in Oduah’s Anambra North Senatorial District, the NYSC boss disclosed that though mobilised for the compulsory national service four decades ago, she absconded.<\/p>\n
In a statement by her Director Media\/Publicity, Ezennia Nonso Chukwudebe reads, \u201cOur attention has been called to your scandalous letter referenced above in which you acknowledged that Sen. Stella Oduah was mobilized for youth service in 1982 and served in the Lagos orientation camp but then concluded that she \u201cabsconded\u201d and was not issued a certificate of discharge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat reckless statement which we consider grossly irresponsible no doubt suggests that it was procured from you for political considerations in favour of Sen. Oduah\u2019s political detractors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are shocked that you condescended so low to make such false and unverified conclusions which is damaging to her character and image.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, Sen. Oduah\u2019s NYSC place of primary assignment was the popular Nigeria Employers\u2019 Consultative Association (NECA).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a similar allegation was made by her political contenders in 2017, NECA issued a letter dated 11th January 2017 Ref No: NECA\/SELA\/H4 confirming that she carried out her NYSC primary assignment with them. Find attached a copy of that letter for reference as well as a photograph of our client as a youth corper.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat issue also attended litigation and she has a court judgment in her favour in the case of Chinedu Emmanuel Emeka v. Princess Stella Oduah , EPT\/AWK\/SEN\/13\/2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrdinarily, one need not be bothered about any other similar allegations in the light of the aforesaid judgment and the fact that NYSC is not a constitutional qualification to hold any public office in Nigeria, but your statement has to a large extent defamed her<\/p>\n
\u201cIn your exact words, \u201cafter the orientation course, she absconded\u201d It is curious how a person who had participated in all NYSC activities at the Orientation Camp can be said to have \u201cabsconded\u201d because she left for her place of primary assignment as it was routine.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is either you chose to ignore your record or your office has failed to keep proper records.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are by this letter given 48 hours to retract your statement failing which legal actions shall be commenced against you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Embattled Senator, Stella Oduah, has given the National Youth Service Corps Director-General 48 hours notice to withdraw his position in a letter she was mobilised for the national service scheme, but absconded without completing the service year. https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2022\/05\/stella-oduah-in-trouble-as-nysc-alleges-she-absconded-40-years-ago\/ Recall that in reply to a letter from a group in Oduah’s Anambra North Senatorial District, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4760,2251,1548],"class_list":["post-57827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-48-hours","tag-nysc","tag-oduah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}