Female Corp Member Found Dead In Ilorin As NYSC Kicks.

The National Youth Service Corps on Monday
condemned the murder of a serving corps member
in Kwara State, Yetunde Idowu, calling on security
agencies to investigate the killing and bring the
perpetrators to justice.
The organisation warned that it would no longer
"tolerate the abuse, harassment, intimidation and
cold-blooded killing of corps members that are
deployed to serve their fatherland during service
year."
The deceased, from Ogun State, who was a member
of the 2014 Batch B set, was serving with the Kwara
State Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Kwara, Ilorin,
before her death.
Idowu, who lived at Tanke on University Road,
Ilorin, had gone to the Kwara State Shopping Mall
on Fate Road and did not return home.
Her corpse was found around GRA Ilorin.
The NYSC expressed sympathy for the immediate
family and relatives of the deceased corps member.
A statement in Abuja by the Assistant Director
(Protocol and Publicity), Mr. Eddy Megwa, on behalf
of the NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations,
Mrs. Abosede Aderibigbe, said, "It is the corporate
responsibility of all Nigerians to ensure that corps
members deployed in all parts of the country for
the one-year mandatory service are accorded all
assistance regarding their security and well-being in
any part of the country where they are posted to
serve.
"The mysterious death of Idowu currently serving in
Ilorin, Kwara State, is unfortunate. The news of her
death was received by the NYSC management on
Sunday, May 24, 2015. She was last seen on
Saturday, May 23, 2015, when she informed her
colleagues that she was going to Shoprite on Fate
Road in Ilorin for shopping.
"The NYSC handles issues concerning our corps
members very seriously, especially when it borders
on death. Arising from this therefore, the Director-
General, NYSC, Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi, sent a
high-powered delegation to Ilorin to, among other
things, register our pains and displeasure over the
death and implore the security agents in the state
and traditional rulers to unravel the circumstances
that led to the death of the corps member and
subsequently bring the culprits to justice.
"Every effort should be made to protect corps
members."
The NYSC, which expressed optimism that the
unpleasant development would not recur, said
having visited the Department of State Service, the
Commissioner of Police and the Emir of Ilorin, it
was confident that all hands would be on deck to
ensure that the culprits of the crime were brought
to book.

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