{"id":73744,"date":"2025-08-20T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73744"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:04:10","slug":"nysc-condemns-assault-on-corps-member-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/nysc-condemns-assault-on-corps-member-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSC Condemns Assault on Corps Member in Anambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has condemned the brutal assault of a corps member, Jennifer Elobor, by operatives of the Agunechemba Vigilante Group in Oba Community, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>A viral video showed the operatives beating and stripping Elobor, while accusing her and other corps members of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, NYSC Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Caroline Embu, described the act as \u201cunacceptable and dehumanizing,\u201d stressing there was no justification for such treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The NYSC welcomed the Anambra State Government\u2019s decision to arrest the perpetrators and pledged full support for the ongoing police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also said it has begun administrative steps to provide psychological and medical support to the victim, while expressing confidence that justice will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has condemned the brutal assault of a corps member, Jennifer Elobor, by operatives of the Agunechemba Vigilante Group in Oba Community, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A viral video showed the operatives beating and stripping Elobor, while accusing her and other corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73746,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73744\/revisions\/73746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}