An advocate group Serve With Skirt Movement seeking for ladies to observe their one-year mandatory national service wearing skirts has challenged the National Youth Service Corps NYSC on its uniform.
Recall that NYSC had sent two ladies away from its Ebonyi orientation camp in November during the 2019 Batch C camping for refusing to wear trousers. (Read here). Serve With Skirt Movement then held a protest against the NYSC authorities yesterday demanding the inclusion of skirts in the youth initiative’s uniform.
The peaceful protest had the participating ladies dressed in Khaki skirts carrying banners which had the inscription “there is a difference between the world and the daughters of God” and “our sisters cannot dress like men” and others. Read also: CAN Calls Out NYSC For Expelling Female Members Who Would Not Wear Trousers
The group convener Udochi Emmanuel, while he addressed newsmen at stated that being harassed for wearing skirts in NYSC orientation camps breached their fundamental human rights under Section 38(1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Noting that wearing of trousers has increased the level of immorality in NYSC orientation camps, she revealed that the movement is ready to seek redress in court if it doesn’t get what it requested.
“We had our mothers wearing skirts and we want to go back to that. We have asked for exemption (sic) severally. NYSC has not given that as an option, they have made it a compulsory one-year service for everyone below the age of 30 and they are mandated to wear those clothes. We have already started negotiations (with government) and we hope that from this dialogue we will get a favourable response“, she said.
Serve With Skirt Movement protests for the inclusion of Skirts in NYSC Uniforms
