hi nairaland, could you help compile names of dead corpers, with their individual tragic stories to this page please, so it can be forwarded to GEJ and relevant authorities for due recognition, due honour- medal of honour, and possible compensation. They died serving this country thats the least we could do for them.


please no repetition of stories, and please avoid inundating this thread with ur comments. Its all going to be sad stories we know, and we know is a shame and we all feel sorry and pity for the perpetrators and victims's families.

Thanks

AIK UKEOMA
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My husband just came back from the meeting and he has briefed me what really happened since there was a witness who was with Aik. This thing is really worse than we think.


The witness' name is Jones*. He was in the same local govt with Aik. They both attended the same fellowship. According to the guy, on the friday before the presidential elections, the people were told on their BBC hausa news station that it must be Buhari. The Emir of the place they were told them at their prayer that they should make sure it is Buhari. Whatever comes as a hindrance must be eliminated. The governor also told them the same thing. The corpers also were told that they must make sure the votes were for Buhari alone.
*Jones was invited by Aik to his own lodge so they spent their friday together. On the day of the election, they all went to their polling booths. *Jones said the people coming for acreditation in his own booth were children between the ages 10-14yrs. He wanted to object, but he was threatened. When it the time for voting came, another set of children came.this time,they were as little as 6yrs. He allowed them to vote also and then gave them the remaining ballot paper. When it was time to write the results on the sheets,they told him the figure they wanted him to write. They even told him to write the figure on the other sheets he was supposed to write on only when he got to the local govt. They followed him to the local govt to submit the result so he doesnt report or do anything. On his way back,he met Aik going to submit his & he was followd by multitude of people. He asked Aik why he was been followed & Aik said he didnt agree to do all they wanted.

The police helped him against them. After submittin, they went home together.


The CLO added that Ikechukwu had by 6.48am that day posted a message on his Face book wall narrating how he nearly escaped being lynched by election riggers after he refused to hand over ballot papers to them during the election on April 16.


“The timely intervention of the police saved me,” Ikechukwu whose Face book name is Ukeoma Aikfavour, had written.


“These CPC supporters would have killed me yesterday, no see threat ooo. Even after forcing under-age voters on me, they wanted me to give them the remaining ballot papers to thumb print. Thank God for the police and I’m happy I could stand for God and my nation. To all corps members who stood despite these threats especially in the North, bravo! Nigeria our change has come,” he added.


On the same Face book page hours later, a friend named Vivesparkle Emmanuel wrote,


“Please, you all should pray for Aik. As at yesterday, some angry mob were shooting guns around them. They were able to take them later to the nearest police station only for him to call that the mob were threatening to burn down the place. We’ve lost contact with him because his phone has been unreachable. Kindly pray for him and others in the same condition. Thanks.”


But the call for prayers came rather too late as Aik was one of the unfortunate corps members killed by the rioters.


On that Sunday, Aik and jones* had both gone to church & back. *Jones' friends in his lodge called him to come back so they could chat so he left Aik.  Then, they heard that some of the natives were throwing stones at some corpers. They didnt think much about it. On monday early in d morning,they woke up with shouts. The mob had started to attack all the corpers lodge. A hausa corper took *Jones & 20 others & whisked them to his house where they took refuge. Aik wasnt fortunate. They attacked their lodge. Aik & 5 others ran out. That was when he made the first call to Lagos. When they chased them to the police station, the policemen there were only 4. The policemen started throwing teragas which the mob threw back at them.They later shot 15 bullets into the air & they ran out of bullets. These policemen were hausa's so they didnt want to shoot their own. the mob were about 200 carrying dagger, cutlasses & matchets. They started burning the cars parked in front of the station tellin the police to give them the corpers or they'll burn the station. This was wen Aik made his second call. Then they started throwing the fire into the station. By then, Aik & d other guys couldnt breathe cos of the smoke so they started running out.


Some of the policemen around were southern police men. The mob also killed them. Aik ran out of the police station & made his last call that he was between life & death & that shops & houses around there had been razed down with fire. When Ifeanyi tried calling Aik back, the hausa guy picked it & said ''damburuba'' or so- he abused him. He said beneath the man's voice, he could hear someone sobbing as if he was dying. Aik was butchered with the others.


*Jones brought with him, the pics of Aik's body & the others who were butchered. Their fellowship leader was chased into the bush by the mob & butchered too. Another corper ran for his life but when he saw that he couldnt make it, he jumped into someone's well. The owner was a learned man. When the mob started throwing stones at the corper in the well, the man begged them to stop so they told him to give them the corper. He had to. So they brought him out & did the same thing again.


*Jones said the SSS came on tuesday to pick them to the barracks. He came back yesterday. Followed the bus that Delta state sent to pick up their indigenes. He was dropped at Abuja from there he boarded a bus to lagos. He said so far in their local govt, 7 corpers & others were killed.
NYSC has their bodies. They are refusing to give their bodies saying they want to do mass burial.

one of his last comments on Facebook

Man is not a reflection of humanity but the reflection of divinity, the very mirror image of God. Selah!

SEUN ADEWUMI

When Seun Adewumi completed his degree programme at the Olabisi Onabanjo University , Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, his dream was to take care of his 62-year-old mother, a retired cleaner of the Judicial Service Commission, Lagos State .


With enthusiasm, he gladly received his posting to Bauchi State for the one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps Scheme with the hope that he would get a good job after his service year and move his mother from the uncompleted building she lives in, at Agbado, an outskirt of Lagos , to a more decent apartment.


But this dream was shattered as life was snuffed out of the 27 year-old Political Science graduate in a gruesome manner last Monday by post-election rioters in Giade, the headquarters of Giade Local Government Area of Bauchi State.


Born in Lagos , Adewumi, a native of Imojo-Ekiti in Oye Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was the only graduate out of his mother’s six children.


One of the corps members that survived the attack where over seven of her colleagues met their untimely deaths, Wumi, said Seun was butchered to death by rioters.


According to the female corps member, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday, the corps members became agitated when they discovered that the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission located beside the Youth Corps Members lodge in Giade had been set on fire by the rioters.


“The Youth Corps Members’ Lodge is just a stone throw to the INEC office, so when we saw it on fire, we all ran to the police station for safety. The Divisional Police Officer allowed us to stay. But a few minutes later, the rioters numbering over 300, swooped on the police station, stoned the policemen, overran the station and set it on fire. The rioters had their way because the policemen were only shooting teargas canisters against them. One of the stones hit the DPO on his head and it was at this point that he ordered all of us to leave the station,’’ Wumi said.


The corps members were thus forced out of the police station into the waiting hands of the devil-inspired rioters. While some, including Wumi, escaped with wounds, seven others including Seun could not make it. They were butchered by the rioters, who were protesting the defeat of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, (retd), the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the April 16 Presidential Election.


“It was a war situation and all of us were just running at different directions. They were inflicting machete cuts on us. They hit me on the head, on the shoulder and back but I kept on running. But thank God, two men on Okada just emerged from nowhere and confronted my attackers. They pleaded with them to leave us alone but when they discovered that they were desperate to kill all of us, one of them just carried me and put me on the motorcycle and sped off. I was taken to a village far from the war zone,’’ she narrated.


When her rescuers saw that she could die of bleeding, they reported her case to the Emir of the village that assisted her in getting medical attention.


“The emir sent a car to take me to the hospital. But before I was rescued, Seun and others were killed by the rioters in a gruesome manner. Some of them were set on fire,” she said.


At Lagos , Seun’s mother, Mrs. Beatrice Adewumi, had become apprehensive after learning that corps members were being killed in some parts of the North including Bauchi.


Though her son spoke with her a day earlier (on Sunday), she still called her younger brother, Venerable Samuel Ojo, who is also the Vicar of The African Church Cathedral, College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos to confirm if he had spoken with Seun in recent time. The woman, who spoke with our correspondent at the vicarage of The African Church Cathedral on Sunday amidst sobs, said she did not know that that Sunday was the last time she would speak with her son.


“He called me on Sunday and said I should please tell one of our distant relations who is a lawyer to get a job for him as he was scheduled to complete his service year in June. I did not know that that would be the last time I would speak with my star. Seun had made a lot of promises to me. He said I should not worry that he would take good care of me.


“Each time he came home from school for food and money, he would call me aside and say, ‘Mummy, don’t worry, I know that you don’t have money but please try and finance my education, I will soon complete my education and after graduation, I will take very good care of you.’ I didn’t know that that promise would not be kept. They have killed my hope, they have killed my shinning light,” the woman who was surrounded by relatives and her brother, Ojo, cried.


Beatrice said she retired in 2009 from the service of the Lagos State Government. She pleaded with the NYSC to release the corpse of her son to her.


“My brother spent over four days before he could get the NYSC Bauchi to confirm his death. But please tell them to give me his corpse because in our tradition when you say somebody is dead, we must see the corpse. Omo eni ku san ju omo eni sonu lo, e bami gbe oku re abi kile fe fi se leyin igba ti eti pa (It is better to lose a child to death than to say a child is missing, please give me his corpse or what else do you want to do with the corpse after you have killed him,)” she said to no one in particular.


Seun’s sister, Ruth, also said that the family would miss the deceased in so many ways. “Seun suffered; many times he would go and do odd jobs to complement the little money our mother could give. He was determined to succeed but see how some senseless, uneducated and barbaric people just killed him. Government should scrap the NYSC. They should compensate my mother because she sacrificed a lot to see him through the university,” Ruth, who is a trained hairdresser, said.


Speaking on the trauma the family had gone through since the young man was killed on Monday; Ojo expressed bitterness at the inability of the NYSC to inform them about the death. This, he said, further traumatised the family as members were left in the dark concerning his whereabouts.


Narrating the event that led to the death of Seun, Ojo said Seun called him around 10am on Monday, April 18 to pray for him as there was a crisis in Giade.


“I asked him what the problem was and he said the rioters had attacked the INEC office and they were on their way to the police station because their lodge was not far from the place. I said he should not worry that we would be praying. But when I called him back, he said they were already in the police station. I was happy but when I called him back around 1pm his mobile phone was dead. I became apprehensive.


“We started calling all his friends and other people from our church that were posted to Bauchi. Nobody knew anything about his whereabouts. Some of them gave us the number of the Bauchi State Coordinator of the NYSC, that of his personal assistant and the Zonal Inspector of Seun’s local government. We tried all the numbers but nobody picked it. It was not until Thursday that the personal assistant to the coordinator picked my call and confirmed that Seun was no more. What the NYSC did was not fair. We were traumatised and subjected to emotional trauma between Monday and Thursday last week,” he said.


The angry cleric said if not for God and his faith in Jesus, he would have gone on a vengeance mission, because according to him, there was no reason why corps members should be attacked because of election.


“Even Seun did not participate in the election. He was not one of the corps members used for the election, so why should they kill him. They should just release his corpse to us and they should compensate the family,” he said.

one of her last comments on Facebook

Get up and praing for d progress of dis country and for d coming ELECTION and it shall be well wit u.

OBINNA OKPOKIRI

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Okpokiri, according to a friend that schooled with him in the United Kingdom, was not only beaten to death, but was burnt after he was killed.

The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes—in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had reportedly run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging rioters targeted the youth corps members who were the polling officers recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the general election. As death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks, the only sanctuary in times of mob insanity. But they were not lucky enough. The rioters caught up with them, beat them up, slaughtered the ones they could and set them on fire. Human beings. Future leaders on the last lap of fulfilling statutory requirement before starting their careers. Slaughtered. Sliced. Soaked in petrol. Scorched. Reduced to ashes in the most callous fashion.
Okpokiri could have been in the United Kingdom savouring life some other way and living in the safety of a society that would go to any length to protect its citizens. He chose to return to his fatherland after acquiring a post-graduate degree in the UK. He chose to do the mandatory national youth service. He chose to obey the posting to Bauchi State, as against the mass hysteria of changing posting.








http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/two-youth-corpers-murdered-in-cold-blood-while-on-national-service/90142/

Anslem Sylvester Nkwazema



According to the CLO, who pleaded anonymity, because corps members are not allowed to speak to the press, Ukeoma and Nkwazema were chased by an angry mob on April 18 and ran into a police station at Giade.


“Unfortunately, the mob was so large than they were able to overpower the policemen after setting the station on fire and all the corps members ran out. Ukweoma and Nkwazema were beaten to death by the mob.







http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201104264484946


one of his last comments on facebook

IF U CANT THANK GOD 4 D SMAL U RECEIVD,THANK GOD 4 WHAT U ESCAPED.
I MAY PRAY 2 FLY LIK AN ANGEL, BUT IF I CAN FLY LIK AN ANGEL,I DONT KNOW WHAT TOMOROW MAY TURN OUT TO BE

Kehinde Adeniyi.
believed to be her



was kill on same incident as AIK Ukeoma, ironically she was identified by her student

“Adeniyi, a Muslim, who was identified by one of his pupils, was subsequently beaten to death by the angry mob."









http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201104264484946

This is really really really sad,


May their souls RIP.

so so sad!!.

these northern babarians, i think a nuke or two shud be dropped there

earthrealm:

so so sad!!.

these northern babarians, i think a nuke or two shud be dropped there

You definitely are not an African
Just 1 nuke in northern Nigeria will have effects on all parts of Nigeria and other parts of Africa will not escape

any more names?

@macjive,

Please be careful with you postings so you don't paste wrong pictures/names.

For example, on the 'Seun Adewumi' story, the picture is that of a female and your comment refers to a feminine but the whole story and quotes within the story refers to a 'he'. Can u please reconcile?

is that so?? Are these lives really worth nothing No something will happen soon!!!

proudly9ja:

@macjive,

Please be careful with you postings so you don't paste wrong pictures/names.

For example, on the 'Seun Adewumi' story, the picture is that of a female and your comment refers to a feminine but the whole story and quotes within the story refers to a 'he'. Can u please reconcile?

changed it. has to be him.

so the northerners killed yorubas muslims too?


WOW

May God have mercy on their souls.

Gideon Orkar almost did it for us, it's now left for us to do it ourselves, divide this country!

vladimiros:

so the northerners killed yorubas muslims too?


WOW

They deal more with bigotry and tribalism.

Omg ARE THESE PEOPLE EVEN HUMAN?? This is why I like America, by now they would have started a war on the North and wiped them all out with a biological weapon or something! My heart goes out to the innocent ones who were killed just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time!!

rip