dekitting
n.— «About one hundred corps members in the Batch “A” NYSC 2007 serving indifferent parts of the country have appealed to members of the National Assembly, the National Universities Commission, Minister of education as well as human rights groups to come to their aid as they risk being stopped by the NYSC from completing their service after seven months in a process called “dekitting.”… “All of a sudden, in August, all of us serving were called back from service.…We want to go back and complete our national service.» —“Delisted Corps Members Appeal for Help” by Isa Umar Gusau in Maiduguri Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria) Oct. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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