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SEUN ADEWUMI
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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.

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!

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

Tuesday cant come soon enuf

Mr, Cork:
macjive01. Bro, do Nigerian women in the UK always ignore you?

lol, sincerely i have not slept with one yet but that has no, in a million, connection with by grieve .

did u not see the moral of the joke?

Teaching Maths at Unilag:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?


Teaching Maths at Edo state University:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?


Teaching Maths at FUTO:

A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M." The set "C", the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set "M." Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" of profits?



Teaching Maths at Aboki Babcock University:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.




moral: GEJ needs to tackle the quality of  the debile, sapless Education system in the North.

Who is d fool btw these two?


An aboki was withdrawing money from d ATM.

The aboki behind him laffed out loud and said :"Ha! Ha! Haaa! walai u i be pool, me I don see am por ya fassword na pour stars(****).


1st aboki: nansense na u i be pool, na 1258 be my fassword, Lơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡l

dustydee:
I take God beg you no add load for the man head.

hahahahahahahah. . . . .



HE MUST DELIVER OOH!!!!

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Black monkey woman
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Yeah that's right. Thats why black men run to white women. You say the white women are fat and ugly, but so are most of the black girls in the UK.
I laugh at how many black men are with fat, overweight,bad weave wearing hippos, then these same jealous women turn around to mix couples and call the white women fat. So its okay for a black man to be with some ugly chimp looking black as night black woman, she isn't seen as fat and ugly, until he may get with a big white woman, then the woman's appearance gets criticized by bitter black women.I see some black woman on the UK black mans thread saying she despairs at some of the white women black men pick up, even a low life white chav woman is better than you that's why. All black women do is point to their overweight buttocks and think that's their big great advantage over white women. what about a good job? nice hair, not weave? what about not looking like a overweight black monkey?
Its only the colour of the skin that black women hate, not the shape of the woman, and if a black man IS with a big white woman, mind your own business.
If you black women were not such worthless fat motormouthed clods, you would have yourself a black man.
Most of you look like mercy from eastenders
JEALOUS BYTCHES!
BM
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why is it always that ugly black women charges to be featured in movies and TV abroad only to be a source of shame and caricature for the black men.

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Interesting!

@ poster, cud u take ur time and compile every of his promises for every state so we cud copy an bind as the new king James.


Also, Cud u insert building of an aircraft assembling hub in aba to the abia state promises.

Even angels in heaven can't save OHAKIM unless God himself, which I don't think wud be happening on saturday.

Silly 419er.

10000 jobs! Indeed.

Rampaging youths destroy houses belonging to PDP officials and kill people in areas that voted the PDP
ARTICLE | APRIL 17, 2011 - 6:49PM | BY ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI

Image credit: Reuters
No fewer than ten people have been killed, while cars, houses and other valuables were destroyed in the aftermath of the presidential election in different parts of Bauchi State.

Mayhem erupted when irate youths, believed to be supporters of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) unleashed terror on innocent people in the name of protecting votes cast in favour of the party.

In Azare, headquarters of Katagum Local Government Area, the youths set ablaze the house of the Bauchi State Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Yaro-Yaro, as well as the house of the Deputy National Secretary of the party, Dr. Musa Babayo. Other property belonging to PDP members were also torched.

Witnesses said the youths were protesting what they described as insufficient ballot papers made available to the polling units during the conduct of the election; a claim the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied. The commission described the action of the youths as impatience as enough ballot papers were made available for the area.

In Alkaleri area, the youths unleashed terror on people during the conduct of the election torching buildings and cars, while the Chairman of Kirfi Local Government Council, Ibrahim Galadima, and that of Bauchi LGC, Sabo Abdullahi Mohammed, were molested and their vehicles burnt down.

In Misau, reports have it the family house of the Secretary to State Government (SSG), Ibrahim Ahmed Dandija, was torched by the youths while a corps member, who was an electoral official in one of the polling centre, was beaten and is now receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Bauchi.

In Bauchi capital, the campaign office of Governor Isa Yuguda, located on Ran Road, was also razed, while several vehicles, belonging to PDP agents, were also torched by the irate youths. In Wuntin-Dada and Guru areas of Bauchi metropolis, three people were killed by the rampaging youths because the PDP won in some of the polling units located there

Reacting, the state police command has deployed anti-riot police officers to strategic locations in Bauchi metropolis to maintain peace. Soldiers were also seen in selected areas of the city.

Unconfirmed reports state that some of the youths have been arrested by the police. Efforts to contact the state’s Commissioner of Police, John Abakasanga, or the spokesperson, Mohammad Barau, were unsuccessful as calls made to their mobile phones were not answered as at press time.

Meanwhile, the presidential election results for the state, as announced by the collation officer, indicated that there are a total number of 2,352,092 registered voters in the state; out of which a total of 1,650,459 voters are valid, while 40,365 votes rejected for various reasons. ACN polled a total of 16,674 votes, ADC polled 599, ANPP got a total of 8777, APC got 339 ARP polled 319, BNPP polled 2699, CPC polled a total of 1315,209, FRESH Party polled 1378, SDP polled 306, ACPN got 232, MPPP polled 288, NCP polled 640 MMDP polled 609, NTP polled 215, while ruling PDP polled a total of 258,404 votes.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/ten-killed-post-election-violence-bauchi

Unconfirmed but from a reliable friend

7 Corp members killed in bauchi !

Selfish Buhari. Now, how on earth wud his party candidates in the upcoming governorship election fare in the south?


Is anybody still dreaming  of the party's chances in subsequent elections ESP in the south?

Who on earth wud now want to identify with a cpc - an Osama's party? A bloodsoaking/seeking terrorist party?

Aisha n co I serious hope u are not part of this grand scheme of terror ?
IMO I believe the SSS shd keep a tag on such personalities. Sorry, bt u never can tell.

Because Ebonyi is very rural and laid back, how many people there wud care abt voting in a presidential election that they wud probably think wudnt hv an immediate effect in their life ?

even in the exposed Lagos wat was the % turnout?

ekt_bear u forget to factor in the absentees ballots.

you will accept that those that voted wud probably be those with strong conviction of their candidate, the 90ish% are a mere 60 - 45 % of registered voted in some cases.

moreover most easterners see Buhari as good as most Hausa northerner see say, Ojukwu. Tell me, how many hausas do u think wud vote Ojukwu in an election ?

also SE/SS is a lot homogenous with their indigenes .

Ileke-IdI:
Why does everything get violent and personal with Igbo posters on NL. Not being tribalistic, but observe yourself.

From the 6 posts on this thread, 4 had been insult from Igbos.  

sorry angel but i wasn't commenting on ur hapless, silly, shame-ridden post but ur personality.  Do u know how long i have been dying to put a face behind the moniker, ileka-idi ? i guess not.



next, kobojunkie. can't wait.

dude, even if Buhari had won via vote from , say , middlebelt, how can one say he has a clear mandate with such pitiful showing in the south east and SS, assuming one can take a pass on his showing in SW ?

@ileka. i believe thats u in ur profile photo, right?


huh, not bad for an A.S.S.HOLE. Expected u to be a horrifyingly Ugly pig.

How else can one explain not getting a mere 1% of votes casts in SE/SS region combined, despite the region having thousands of muslims esp in onitsa and Aba ?

Answer: they are not comfortable with wat he-buhari represent.

LORD HAVE MERCY AT IMO STATE RIGGER!!

Forgive them for they know not what they are doing!

PDP = 1381357/ 1406289 = [size=28pt]98.23 % of the valid vote  [/size]



OHAKIM n co shd better not try this at home next week!

Wait for rig lord state- IMO state n see the miracle of PDP!

If it's anything less than 93 for GEJ, take it he lost.

Odunnu:
This is one time when I wish I were Igbo. I love Ndigbo for loving GEJ. Lol

Lol, really, are u not Igbo? Mehn wat a shame!

^^ Hilter is dead as well he deserves some respect.
Hmmm, Abacha is dead as well he deserves sone respect.

S.illy reasoning. . . .

ARINZEEZE IS THE FOOL

ohakim is a goner!!!!

gernded:
no matter what you write owele is governor in waiting.

should have written it in CAPITALs. ohakim is a goner! forget it!