A
female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), simply identified as
Jumoke, has died at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local
Government Area of Bayelsa State.
It
was gathered that the 2016 Batch B Stream II corps member died of asthmatic
attack last Friday.
The
deceased undergoing the compulsory orientation, a core programme of the scheme,
breathed her last at the Clinic Department of the camp.
Though
her colleague said the deceased corps member came to camp with her inhaler to
ward off crisis, it was not certain what became of the inhaler when her attack
started.
A
source, who spoke in confidence, however said the victim suffered her first
attack a week after arrival at the camp but was assisted by colleagues.
"My
friend told me that when the deceased suffered her first attack in camp, she
helped her to overcome it.
“But
we don't know what happened when a similar attack that took her life
happened," she said.
Some
persons also claimed that the deceased was both asthmatic and epileptic saying
she was not fit to be at the camp.
Her
remains were said to have been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre,
Yenagoa.
The
Director-General, NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Sule Kauzure, was said to have dispatched a
delegation of senior NYSC officials from the headquarters in Abuja to Kaiama.
The
officials, it was gathered, arrived on Friday evening and immediately commenced
investigations to ascertain the circumstances that led to the death of the
corps member.
NYSC
officials in Bayelsa State however kept mute over the development saying the
headquarters had taken over the matter.
Last
year, a female corps member became sick at the camp but later died at the
Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.
The
latest incident occurred few days after Kauzure, who was represented by the
NYSC Director, Procurement, Mr. Yakubu Jok, visited the Kaiama camp.
The
D-G advised youths absorbed in the scheme to take their personal security
seriously.
Kauzure
lamented that corps members were increasingly exposing themselves to danger by
embarking on unauthorised night journeys, regretting that some corps members
lost their lives with others sustaining grave bodily injuries because of
indiscipline.
He
appealed to them to always stay at the places they were posted to carry out
their one year national assignments.
Kauzure
also urged the youths to embrace patriotism and discipline, adding that the
scheme was designed to inculcate values of citizenship and leadership in them.
