President Goodluck Jonathan's Deafening Silence :( #FreeTheCorpersCampaign

 Updated: the Corpers have been released!!!

The State and Federal Government have to take on a better attitude if #NYSC must continue. Their attitude towards safety of corpers is 0/10 so far...

Tomorrow 14th of June, 2011 would make it exactly 1 week since Twenty five years old Olumide Yusuf (in the picture) and 4 other female corp members were kidnapped from Community Secondary School in Omademe village Ikwerre LGA of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. All efforts to track them had proved abortive and their kidnappers are allegedly asking for N100M from their families. (Click to read his mother's plea)

Rivers State government has concluded it won’t pay the ransom in order not to encourage future occurrence while the FG has remained mute over the kidnap saga. NYSC authorities in Rivers are yet to release the identities of the other victims while the families of these patriotic young lads wallow in confusion and unimaginable heartaches.

Our concern is not that they were kidnapped. Our rage is borne out of the ‘deafening silence’ that has been prevalent over the kidnap saga so far. It would interest you to know that all 5 of them are Batch ‘B’ corp members and are supposed to be discharged by the NYSC and rejoin their various families on Thursday 16th June, 2011; after having served their fatherland ‘under the rain and in the sun’ for a period of 12months.

"What value does the Nigerian government place on its citizens? If the government can pay ransom for foreigners why not for Nigerians? Its time the government seeks all avenues to get this corpers released while our security system is improved upon especially the training and welfare of the Nigeria Police." -Cousin Canary

Although, as young people of Nigeria, we do not have the ransom money being demanded by the kidnappers, we hereby make the following demands:

1. That all Batch ‘B’ corp members, across the federation, boycott all Passing Out Parade (POP) activities in solidarity and to ensure NYSC hold a press conference to unveil the identities of the other 4 female corp members.

2. That the FG brief the nation on the situation of things and plans being adopted to free them. The families have made it clear that they do not want the N5M paid to families of deceased corp members. They prefer to have them alive.

What Can You Do To Help?

Simply broadcast this message and send to all the contacts on your BB, Email and media houses. Write on President Goodluck Jonathan's FACEBOOK wall, calling for his attention to address the Kidnappers/issue!!!


Signed:
Free The Corpers Campaign

UPDATED!! June 20th 2011- Corpers have been released, click to read: http://youthmakingchange.blogspot.com/2011/06/kidnapped-corpers-olumide-4-ladies-have.html

2011 Nigerian Presidential Election Results. Official Updates and Analysis.

Here is the official result of the just concluded Presidential Election in Nigeria as published by Nigeria Elections Coalition, a virtual network backed by real networks that in two conferences in 2009 and 2010 agreed to work cooperatively with in the shared goals and common purpose of achieving a free and fair election in 2011. Click here for more info

Updates and Analysis:

S/N	PU	PDP	ACN	CPC	ANPP	TOTAL	Reg. Voters	Voter Turnout	PDP Margin	CPC Margin	ACN Margin
1	OSUN STATE	188,409	299,711	6,997	3,617	498,734	1,293,967	38.5%	37.8%	1.4%	60.1%
2	ONDO STATE	387,376	74,253	11,890	6,741	480,260	1,616,091	29.7%	80.7%	2.5%	15.5%
3	KWARA STATE	268,243	52,432	83,603	1,672	405,950	1,152,361	35.2%	66.1%	20.6%	12.9%
4	KOGI STATE	399,816	6,516	132,201	16,491	555,024	1,316,849	42.1%	72.0%	23.8%	1.2%
5	OGUN STATE	309,177	199,555	17,654	2,969	529,355	1,941,170	27.3%	58.4%	3.3%	37.7%
6	LAGOS STATE	1,281,688	427,203	189,983	*	1,898,874	6,108,069	31.1%	67.5%	10.0%	22.5%
7	EKITI STATE	135,009	116,981	*	*	251,990	764,726	33.0%	53.6%		46.4%
8	ABIA STATE	1,175,954	4,156	3,608	1,418	1,185,136	1,524,484	77.7%	99.2%	0.3%	0.4%
9	KANO STATE	441,576	42,353	1,624,343	526,000	2,634,272	5,027,297	52.4%	16.8%	61.7%	1.6%
10	BAUCHI STATE	258,404	*	1,315,205	*	1,573,609	2,523,614	62.4%	16.4%	83.6%
11	OYO STATE	484,758	252,240	92,396	7,156	836,550	2,572,140	32.5%	57.9%	11.0%	30.2%
12	ENUGU STATE	802,144	1,755	3,753	1,111	808,763	1,303,155	62.1%	99.2%	0.5%	0.2%
13	FCT	253,444	2,323	131,576	3,170	390,513	943,473	41.4%	64.9%	33.7%	0.6%
14	BENUE STATE	694,776	223,007	109,680	*	1,027,463	2,390,884	43.0%	67.6%	10.7%	21.7%
15	SOKOTO STATE	309,057	20,144	540,769	*	869,970	2,267,509	38.4%	35.5%	62.2%	2.3%
16	KATSINA STATE	282,477	*	864,343	*	1,146,820	3,126,898	36.7%	24.6%	75.4%
17	GOMBE STATE	290,347	3,420	459,898	*	753,665	1,318,377	57.2%	38.5%	61.0%	0.5%
18	JIGAWA STATE	419,252	*	663,994	*	1,083,246	2,013,974	53.8%	38.7%	61.3%
19	RIVERS STATE	1,817,762	16,382	13,182	1,449	1,848,775	2,429,231	76.1%	98.3%	0.7%	0.9%
20	BAYELSA STATE	504,811	370	691	136	506,008	591,870	85.5%	99.8%	0.1%	0.1%
21	DELTA STATE	1,368,851	13,146	8,960	*	1,390,957	2,032,191	68.4%	98.4%	0.6%	0.9%
22	ADAMAWA STATE	508,314	32,786	344,526	2,706	888,332	1,816,094	48.9%	57.2%	38.8%	3.7%
23	KEBBI STATE	369,198	26,171	501,453	*	896,822	1,638,308	54.7%	41.2%	55.9%	2.9%
24	KADUNA STATE	1,190,179	11,278	1,334,244	17,301	2,553,002	3,905,387	65.4%	46.6%	52.3%	0.4%
25	EBONYI STATE	480,572	1,102	1,025	14,296	496,995	1,050,534	47.3%	96.7%	0.2%	0.2%
26	EDO STATE	543,173	54,242	17,795	2,174	617,384	1,655,776	37.3%	88.0%	2.9%	8.8%
	TOTAL	15,164,767	1,881,526	8,473,769	608,407	26,128,469	54,324,429	48.1%
		58.0%	7.2%	32.4%	2.3%

For more updates, visit Nigeria Elections' website http://nigeriaelections.org/presidential.php