The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the rescue of the last prospective Corps member, Solomon Daniel Bassey, out of eight who were abducted on August 17, 2023, in Zamfara State en route Sokoto State Orientation Camp.

NYSC Director General, Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed, who announced this on Friday while addressing a press conference, said all the corps members rescued from Zamfara State would be issued discharge certificates.

It would be recalled that Bassey was the last of eight corps members rescued following their kidnap on August 17, 2023, by suspected terrorists in Zamfara State on their way to NYSC Orientation Camp in Sokoto State on Monday, August 21, 2023.

The NYSC Director General said after all the rescued corps members had gone through in the hands of their captors, they could not be mobilised for service again but to be given their discharge certificates.

Newsmen reports that the prospective corps members were travelling in an Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) bus from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State to Sokoto State for the one-year mandatory national service, when their vehicle was intercepted by the hoodlums.

Although there were 11 corps members and the driver in the bus, three of the corps members escaped during the attack.