From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
The Ogun State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Nasamu Olayinka Diana, has denied reports that a corps member serving in the state was killed and his body dumped in the bush.
Some news media had, last Sunday, reported that a body of a yet-to-be-identified corps member was discovered in the bush around the Kadesh area of Ogijo, Sagamu, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The reports stated that the residents of the area discovered the body of the deceased in the bush and reported it to the police. But, reacting to the reports, Nasamu insisted that the abandoned body was not a member of the NYSC in the state.
She described the reports as untrue, adding that investigations by the police had revealed that the deceased was a bricklayer and not a corps member.
“The person that they found in Ogijo bush was not a corps member; he was a bricklayer. You cannot say someone is a corps member without verifying his corps number, his place of primary assignment, and there was nothing identifying him as a corps member.
“We went to the commissioner police in Ogun State, who has also confirmed that the deceased was not a corps member. When a corps member dies, and you are writing about it, you have to be precise because they have unique identification numbers; that is their code numbers and that was not in the report. I don’t know how the report came about, but the person whose body was abandoned was not a corps member, but a bricklayer”, Nasamu stated.
Nasamu disclosed that there are 19,970 corps members serving across the 20 local government areas of the state.