The National Youth Service Corps has advised corps members to establish and maintain personal relationships with their abductors in the event of being kidnapped.
Establish a personal relationship with your captors as early as possible,” the national service department said in a security advisory that underscored the severity of Nigeria’s perennial insecurity. “Do not antagonise your captors, be polite and operate with reasonable regards.”
The Security Awareness and Education Handbook for Corps Members distributed at youth camps March 2021 details what corps members should do while in captivity, such as refraining from divulging their employers’ information. The manual instead recommended that close friends and family information may be revealed to negotiations for their release.
The advisory also asked corpers to keep caution of their environment and refrain from commenting to the media after their release without “official clearance.”
Culled from Peoples Gazzets
