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My Experience As A Youth Corp Member And How I Nearly Died In Benin City Enroute To Ekiti State

By Wisdom Nwedene

In 2022, I nearly died in Fatal accident which claimed many lives while I was going to my place of primary assignment also known as PPA. After camping for three weeks in Ekiti State, I came back to Ebonyi State to carry my property and return to Ekiti State.

On that faithful day, March 11th, 2022, I will never forget the date till I will die because I didn't know I will survive it. Not after seeing how our bus sumersulted many times and got trapped in a pole by the side of the road.

Going back to Ekiti State was very hard for me because I thought my relocation could work out. As I entered bus from Anambra to Ekiti, my mind was not at rest. I kept praying in my mind for safe journey but the worse happened in Benin.

As we were getting to Benin, a car "doubled crossed" own bus which was in full speed, our bus driver couldn't do anything because it was late. Our bus hit the car, started sumersulting till we got trapped by a electric pole that's by the side of the road.

All of us were trapped inside the bus, my legs were squeezed. In the process of trying to bring out my legs, a rod inside the bus pierced through my leg, cut it open. 😭😭😭😭.

After I managed to come out with few others, the bus caught fire and others who couldn't come out were burnt to ashes. I remembered how an Ezza girl who was inside the bus with me going for her youth service couldn't come out. She was burnt to ashes.

A good samaritan, picked me and others who broke their spine cord to a nearby hospital in Benin City. I don't know anyone there. I was helpless. The little money I had, I deposited it in the hospital to get the leg treated, only for the hospital to do a poor job. Few months later, the leg was getting rotten inside without me knowing.

Meanwhile, I had to post in our NYSC WhatsApp group back then that I had an accident only for our LGI to accuse me of lying. He said I should carry my leg and come back to Ekiti State or I should forget about NYSC. He threatened me with suspension for lying. Only me knew back then that I was dying inside.

For three weeks, I was battling with the leg in Abakaliki here. The leg was getting worse, not healing inside because the hospital in Benin did a poor job.

I went to FETHA to get treatment, only for the doctor that I met there to ask me to use my hand to open the wound for him to see. I didn't talk to him again. I went back home, started treating the leg at St Vincent Hospital Ndubia.

After like four weeks, a good Samaritan whom I now address as my mother on Facebook here, Precious Ropalia chatted me up. I didn't know her. I only met her on Facebook here. That's why I always tell people to be careful of how they insult people on Facebook here.

She chatted me and asked me how is the leg because I posted about it on Facebook. I told her about everything. She asked me the state I was serving, I told her it's Ekiti State. I didn't know she is a big woman ooo. That's how she asked me to forward my details to her that I will get relocated to Ebonyi State immediately.

After I forwarded her my details, she worked on it immediately, submitted my details to the State Coordinator who was like a mother when she heard about my experience. That's how I served in Ebonyi State. The lgi didn't know I have been relocated. He is still waiting for me to come back to Ekiti State till today.

Despite battling with the leg till today, NYSC doesn't care about how I am doing. Try to stay alive while serving because those that died have been forgotten.

Credit : (Wisdom Nwedene is a seasoned journalist writes from Ebonyi State)

Source : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYW2rtwKF/

Thank God for your life.

Thank God for being alive. NYSC is not a good scheme if one must be honest.

Do you how many came so close to being consumed by senseless religious unrest in the north?

Wow

CodeTemplar:
Thank God for being alive. NYSC is not a good scheme if one must be honest.

Do you how many came so close to being consumed by senseless religious unrest in the north?

NYSC was a horrible idea to start with. That NYSC misadventure has NEVER served any constructive purpose that benefits either the country or the hapless graduates who wind up getting posted to dangerous parts of the country where kidnappers, bandits, and traffic accidents take the lives of so many graduates needlessly, right at the very moment when the parents who paid to educate their children in university, should be relaxing to enjoy the sight of what their newly graduated offspring might achieve in their careers.

Cancel the idiotic NYSC because it is Nigeria's number one killer of recent graduates while offering ZERO benefits to anyone in return.

Sorry for ur plight

Thank God for sparing your life.

NYSC is very irrelevant.

OK ,




thank God for your life ,






Princess Faith Chukwu

Hxh

I keep saying this,
Education good oo
But handwork is the best,

In Nigeria,Acada na scam,
If only our lecturers will be sincere with it,
Na we get Universities pass for African, college of education,etc but whr the work dey,
During my time in nysc, frankly speaking,
I just dey my house jejely Cos I no wan hear say monkey go market he no fit locate road back home,
Naija is too big,many things dey happen,
Na just the ones wey u see u go talk about,

NYSC is 'irrelevant' but Nigeria is not the only country where the citizens go for COMPULSORY national service. The problem is that bad governance makes the people hate it more.
This post is dedicated to the Channels TV staff who died covering Boko Haram, he would have been 45 years old this March.

On January 20, 2012, Channels Television journalist Enenche Akogwu was killed by Boko Haram militants in Kano, Nigeria, while investigating bomb explosions near the Farm Centre Police Station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqgqBtILrG0

It's well with your soul

NYSC should have been scrapped as soon as Obasanjo took over from the military in 1999...!

The concept of uniting the nation through the scheme has since fallen through, and isn't uniting shit.

Let's quit deceiving ourselves and stop endangering the lives of youths.

Posting people against their wills especially from the South to places like the North East is all shades of wrong!

If I tell you what happened to me on the 8th of November 2005 during my way back to Azare katagun local government area in bauchi state, u will thank God for his mercy upon my life.

Very soon everyone will be serving in their region.

Thank God for your life.

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CodeTemplar:
Thank God for being alive. NYSC is not a good scheme if one must be honest.

Do you how many came so close to being consumed by senseless religious unrest in the north?

I thought the OP nearly died of hunger and starvation while serving, due to terrible T-Pain's continuation of APC shege in galloping inflation, hunger, starvation, insecurity etc.

There is nothing senseless about the religious unrest in the north that has claimed youth corpers. If there was anything senseless about it, why would our southern brothers not only defend it but rally behind the remote cause to make him president twice for eight years as the beloved General that some were made to think he was back then

Seun:
Statement by the Congress for Progressive Change on the On-going Violence Caused by the Recent Electoral Fraud

1. The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) noted with concern the ongoing violent reaction on the announced results from the collation exercise currently in progress at Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

2. While appreciating the inalienable right of Nigerians in a democratic system to express their feelings in a protest against injustice, they must never the less remain non-violent.

3. The CPC abhors violence by all Nigerians in the course of expressing grievances

4. The CPC has throughout its campaign preached to its supporters to eschew violence. In the circumstance we therefore, call on all our supporters to remain calm and non-violent and prepare themselves for the next round of

elections on Tuesday, April 26, 2011.

5. All CPC supporters should come out enmasse on April 26 to vote for the CPC and overthrow those responsible for the evident injustice to our Party and the nation.

6. We also condemn in the strongest term the brutality of the security forces against unarmed protesters and innocent civilians and call on
them to show restraint in handling all situations of civil protest.

7. We call on the federal government to investigate and determine the role of the police and other security forces in the allege shooting of about 100 innocent Nigerians in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Port Harcourt, Owerri and other places.

Prince Tony Momoh

National Chairman

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kayode-ogundamisi/statement-by-the-congress-for-progressive-change-on-the-on-going-violence-caused/10150228728986171

I think the statement is too weak to end the violence.  The beloved General himself needs to appear on TV and rebuke the violence in Hausa.

Sachwugei:
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Criminal put the winning code make we check am... Lies kee I there

This time wasting of a thing.

We thank God for your safety, God will perfect every thing concerning you.

And some boys and girls can do or give anything just to go for NYSC.
Just because of orientation camp nonsense.

Didn't Buhari and his supporters celebrate with glee the murdering of NYSC members who helped INEC to organize the 2011 presidential election in parts of Northern Nigeria?

Sorry, you will be healed completely soon, believe in God

They don't care

Kosiso12:
Credit : (Wisdom Nwedene is a seasoned journalist writes from Ebonyi State)

Source : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYW2rtwKF/

We thank God for your life
... But that seasoned journalist, hmm.

Thanks to God on your behalf for still being alive 🙏

Jakumo:
NYSC was a horrible idea to start with. That NYSC misadventure has NEVER served any constructive purpose that benefits either the country or the hapless graduates who wind up getting posted to dangerous parts of the country where kidnappers, bandits, and traffic accidents take the lives of so many graduates needlessly, right at the very moment when the parents who paid to educate their children in university, should be relaxing to enjoy the sight of what their newly graduated offspring might achieve in their careers.

Cancel the idiotic NYSC because it is Nigeria's number one killer of recent graduates while offering ZERO benefits to anyone in return.

NYSC can't be cancelled it is a money making venture for the elite. Go find out the following information:

1. How much it takes to kit one corper?
2. How much is assigned for feeding/boarding of one corpor per day during the orientation period.
3. Find out information how these contracts are awarded and to which companies.

Then come back and tell me if government will take any serious step in cancelling it