The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has urged the federal government not to prosecute a female corps member who allegedly attacked President Bola Tinubu’s administration in a viral video.
The corps member said on Sunday that authorities from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) threatened her because she criticized Tinubu’s administration.
TUC President Festus Osifo, while speaking on television programme monitored in Lagos, stated that the corps member spoke out of frustration, urging the government not to target her but to be tolerant of critics.
The Lagos-based NYSC member, Ushie Uguamaye, had taken to TikTok to criticise Tinubu’s government over the hardship Nigerians face as a result of the administration’s economic reforms.
Her video went viral and got the attention of NYSC officials, whom she later accused of calling her and issuing a threat to her to delete the video.
“They (government) have to develop this resilience to understand that people are frustrated, people are hungry, people are tired. So, if they decide to vent, I strongly believe that the government should not personalise it and come after such individuals.
“Imagine a young lady carrying out her NYSC function, what does she really have to do to bring down government? So, it is about personal frustration that she has aired.
“So, I think that the government has to persevere much more, they have to be more tolerant, and they have to have this deep level of patience with Nigerians because people are passing through a lot as it stands today,” the TUC boss said.
NYSC Mum As Corper Alleges Threat To Life
Meanwhile, the National Youth Service Corps has remained silent over the allegation of threats levelled against it by a Lagos-based corper, Ushie Uguamaye, for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s government.
Uguamaye had, in a now-viral video shared on her TikTok account, talktoraye, on Saturday, expressed frustration over Nigeria’s worsening economic conditions, lamenting the high inflation and economic hardship.
Uguamaye had also criticised the President by describing him as a “terrible leader” while questioning the government’s efforts to alleviate the hardship faced by the citizens.
Additionally, she stressed that Lagos State is a “smelling state” and lamented its “poor living conditions.”
Several users on various social media platforms shared the video while discussions were geared in the direction of her lamentations, which caused the video to go viral.
After the video had gone viral, Uguamaye posted another video on her TikTok to alert the public that she was allegedly being threatened by the NYSC authorities.
She claimed that some officials of the NYSC were asking her to delete the video while she insisted that she had only spoken the truth about the country’s situation.
Uguamaye went further to state that she would not delete the post because it would amount to covering up whatever punishment was meted out to her.
She urged the NYSC authorities to desist from threatening her since she had been instructed to report to the office on Monday.
