‘Go back to where you came from,’ Lagos official blasts NYSC lady in anti-Tinubu video, Villa aide says ‘she deserves the death penalty’
A flurry of angry reactions from government officials has trailed the video made by a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Ushie Ugwamaye.
Ugwamaye who uses the moniker Raye, had criticised President Bola Tinubu via her TikTok account calling him a terrible president for ‘doing nothing’ to curtail the rising prices of commodities.
The criticism immediately earned her a reprimand from the NYSC board who summoned her for a meeting on Monday morning. The meeting didnt hold as officials of the NYSC where nowhere to be found when she arrived the Eti-Osa secretariat along with Africa Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore and a team of lawyers.
The attacks against Raye have, however, been ferocious by aides of government officials. One of them, Temitope Ajayi, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, seeks the death penalty for the young lady.
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He said via his Facebook page: ““If she is not a corper, she can say whatever she fancies like people do per second. Citizens can abuse a living day out of their President or any public official. It is normal.“But a corper violated her oath and code of conduct here. That is capital punishment under NYSC.”
Also, the director of public affairs for the Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adesina said it is people like the NYSC member who come in droves without their families that would mess up Lagos and turn around to call the place smelly.
He said per Guardian report: “They can always say whatever they want to say, but what they fail to realise is that it is the same people who come into Lagos in droves, in thousands on a daily basis, that make a mess of all the steps that the state government is always putting in place. Yes, they are the ones.
“When we say there should be no street trading, they are the same ones who carry backpack on their back, who come into Lagos with no family, no kind of lineage, or where to put their head at night and sleep. They are the ones selling at the bus stops or even in the traffic. They are the ones messing up the roads with open defecation. They are the ones who engage in it, and at the same time they turn around to accuse the government of not doing what is right.
“They are the same people who make a mess of all the programs and plans to put in place, and when you try to even use the long hands of the law on them, people keep shouting, the government is too draconian. You are applying force
“You can’t stop them; they will tell you they are citizens of Nigeria which allows free movement, free exit for everybody. There is no law that says ‘Mister, you cannot come from Sokoto or from Anambra State to Lagos.’ You can’t stop them.
“Their influx is part of what has put some of the undue pressures on our social social infrastructure. So me, I won’t be the one to be propagating all the nonsensical thought she talked about. I’ve seen several pictures of the lady in night clubs and all the rest, enjoying herself in the same Lagos,” he said.
