The NYSC has called on Ushie Rita Uguamaye, a Lagos-based corps member, to report to their local government office after her social media video went viral.
In the video, posted on TikTok, she tearfully criticized President Tinubu’s handling of the rising cost of living, calling him “terrible.”
The NYSC’s message directs her to appear at the Eti Osa 3 local government office on Monday morning.
“If a lot of Nigerians come out and start speaking about what we are going through, maybe changes will be made in the government,” she said in the TikTok video.
“I don’t know if there is any other president that is as terrible as you, but you are such a terrible president.”
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Ushie Rita Uguamaye also expressed her financial hardship as a corps member, saying her NYSC allowance is inadequate for basic needs.
She explained that she frequently spends more than she receives due to the rapidly increasing prices of essential goods.
She said, “So, I am coming from a supermarket where I went to get foodstuff, and everything has gone up again. It’s just like every single week, prices keep increasing. I want to know, what is the government doing about this increase? Is there going to be a particular time when prices will stop going up?
“Why am I going to get a crate of eggs and I’m told it costs N6,500? It doesn’t make any sense that eggs would cost that much. I literally remember when eggs cost N800. I am so overwhelmed because this is the first time I’ve stayed out of my family house.
“After I left the supermarket, I got home, and the security and NEPA bills have skyrocketed, doubling in price. It is insane. I can’t keep up with these bills. Every single penny I make, I am using it to pay bills.
“The crazy thing is, you want to go out with your friend, and Uber is N25,000. Why are things so expensive?
“To make it worse, Lagos stinks. Everywhere smells. What is the government doing about the smell? Being an NYSC corper, there is nothing so beneficial about this scheme.
“The money I spend on transportation is much more than the allowance the federal government pays us. We should start calling out the government. For example, Tinubu, you are a terrible person. What are you doing to help our economy?”
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Within a day of her initial video, Ushie Rita Uguamaye posted a follow-up video showing her receiving a phone call from an NYSC official.
She also stated that she had received numerous calls from NYSC officials, who instructed her to stop criticizing the government and remove the video.
She said, “Yesterday, I made a video talking about the Nigerian government and how terrible President Tinubu is and I was crying in the video. Thirty minutes ago, I received a call from the NYSC board starting with the secretariat before the LGI and for the NYSC secretariat, I’m going to attach some of the things she said so you guys can hear.”
In the conversation with the NYSC official, the official questioned Rita’s mental state, asking, “Are you normal?” Rita clarified she wasn’t insulting the president.
The official then aggressively told her to “keep quiet” and remove the video, stating, “You are not talking to your mate.” Rita asked if she was being threatened.
She later recounted that the official had yelled at her to delete the video.
She also expressed concern about the NYSC having her personal information, saying, “These people know my address and where I live, and now they’ve begun threatening me.”
She said, “It is so bad that you can’t even just speak up about the government because they feel like they have chains to hold you. She was telling me that I was insulting the president. I never insulted the president, I said he is terrible. That is not an insult, it is a statement.”
“NYSC, they have my house address and they have started calling me to threaten me so in case anything happens, people will be very much aware of where the problem started from.
“I’m depressed and bank account in going to zero and I still have to live every day. I’m asking the Nigerian government to do something about the inflation. Instead of me to get a call saying, ‘Ok, we are working on it,’ I ‘m getting a call saying, ‘You are very stupid. Why did you do that to Tinubu? Take don that video.’”
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