Slain corps members: Yuguda’s comment unfortunate -Anglican bishop •I was misquoted -Bauchi gov

Dissatisfied with the statement credited to the governor of Bauchi State, Mallam Isa Yuguda, over the nine slain corps members in the state, the Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Jos, Reverend Father Benjamin Kwashi, has described such a statement coming from a state governor as most unfortunate.

He said that the governor, who should be a leader, should refrain from making such a comment to what he called “a very sensitive matter. l pray that his own child may not be a victim and killed like that.”

Mallam Yuguda was reported to have said that the nine corps members who lost their lives in the mayhem that trailed the presidential election in Bauchi State was their destiny, adding that he faced such attacks while serving as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Oyo State in 1979.

The cleric, who disclosed that if what happened after the election was not properly dealt with “ then a serious protest with a larger proportion is expected to occur in 2015 without anybody stopping it.”

Meanwhile, Malam Yuguda has denied having mocked members of the NYSC, who died in the state during the recent political riots that trailed the presidential election in some parts of the North, saying he was quoted out of context.

A national newspaper had, at the weekend, quoted the governor as saying he too was attacked as a corps member in the South-West in 1979 and that his own house was also burnt in the riots, thereby down-playing the gravity of the corps members’ death.