ayanbaba2:

smiles!

I remember that "stupid drunkard" that caused commotion for you guys one midnight!

hope you self no follow jump through the window? many were injured

jomoh:
Yikpata camp


A camp in the middle of nowhere. The most obscure NYSC camp I know in in the country.


That place is supposed to be converted into prison or military training camps for jungle combats. Even prisoners will complain.

No water
No toilet
Far from civilization
One single network back then(MTN)

No wonder a Corp member died a batch before mine due to snake bite.





Yikpata too has classrooms converted to hostel called ecomog.

Yikpata is worst. It’s justfew kilometers from river Niger.

The closest civilization to the camp is over a 100km away from the camp site. Even when you get to the entrance of the camp, Apart from the old bus stop, the sign board and the communication mast at the junction, if anyone tells you there are over 3000 Nigerian youths sleeping inside the bush less that 500meters from the road side(where you stand), you’d find it hard to believe. Meaning if you’re standing on the road beside the camp, you won’t see anything to tell you that there are over 3000 people just 500m from that road. That is to tell you how thick the forest jungle around the camp is.

ayanbaba2:
that's how it's been since...

until the DG came and announced to us all that the camp will be closed in two days time to those "stupid" state officials...

two trucks of bunk frames came in to the camp... also, two borehole were dug. all these within two days ooooo...

they even increased our "meat" then! just to pacify us.

thank God for God! almost bitten by a "brown" snake one "early morning" just by the doorstep of hostel 5!

that camp na jungle!

to my surprise, the next batch confirmed to us that the borehole is not functioning at all.

all these in 2014... na 14c I be

Darevofpeace:
I was 2014 batch A.I later became the C.L.O of Edu.L.G

Darevofpeace:
I was the C.L.O of the Edu Local Government (Lafiagi) the Local Gov.hosting the Camp.2014/15 Batch A.
During my days in the Camp,we go to ease ourselves in the bush at midnight. I do buy bathing water from the villagers at #30 per bucket for the 3 weeks.
I paid those Women #1500 to wash my clothes for 3 weeks.Only the white vest,socks and canvas.We were 13 in my cubicle,we gave those women all our vest.
The camp is bad and two batches after my batch,the NYSC D.G heard about the Camp poor state and came down to Yikpata,he first decamped the State Coordinator,and gave the former Governor an Ultimatum of 72hrs to make life easy for the Corpers.
He also gave out his personal mobile number to the Corp members, if of his points are not corrected.
Corp Members were extremely happy,they stopped attending lectures,parade and eat all day at Mami Market.
There is a river enroute Lafiagi in the camp where Corpers go to have fun.The soldiers are mostly unaware that the Corpers had already left the camp.
A friend of mine went to Lagos taking the bushes every Weekend on Fridays and returns on Sunday evening.
The Camp was referred as a town of #50 bike to hell as jokes,because of the heatwaves all day.Kwara is damn hot.

Lullabye:

That's very true. only Mtn network back then. Scorpions everywhere,
i had my bath outside all through. and short-put all the way.
Guess you are Batch 10B, because we were told that snake bite story of a batch before ours as well.
even if you escape from camp then, you will come back yourself because there is nowhere to go. that camp is really middle of nowhere.

Majid1990:
what species of animal are you

NigeriaIsDoomed:
boko haram stay off my mention please.

Majid1990:
what made you think your sense of reasoning is effective spit

Majid1990:
what made you think your sense of reasoning is effective spit you deserve this

NigeriaIsDoomed:
I will never be your victim
Abeg go bomb urself and your people.

granely:
Yikpata camp might not be that good but its not as bad as you guys said. I camped in Yikpata July 2018

SOFTDRINK:
Understandably, you came from a worse place , so you couldn't relate with the harsh realities in Yikpata.

geedot:
Someone with a functional brain shouldn't type what you just typed up there to a stranger you know little or nothing about!