Group Remembers Slain Corps Members

Friends and family members of the slain Youth Corpers killed at a police station in Giade, Bauchi state during the last year’s general elections on Wednesday, 18 April,2011 held memorial lecture for their remembrance.

The first year remembrance lecture held at Dideolu International Press Centre, Ogba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria was beheld amidst mixed reactions.

The lecture was convey priory by friends of the late Imo state born Ikechukwu Chibuzor Ukeoma (AIK) who was allegedly hacked down brutally alongside his fellow Corpers in the police station where they run to take refuge on 18 April 2011.

Slain Corpers include Teidi Tosin from Osun state (Bsc Computer Science),Nkawazema Anslem Chukwunoyerem from Imo state(HND Electrical Electronics Engineering), Okpokiri Obinna Michael from Abia State (Bsc Environmental Management) and Adewunmi Seun Paul from Ekiti state (Bsc Social Sciences).

Others are adewei Elliot from Bayelsa State (Bsc computer science)Adeniji kehinde Jebheel from Osun state (Bsc Banking and Finance) Gbenjo-Ebenezer Ayotunde from Osun State (Bsc Educationa Economics)and Akonyi Ibrahim Sule from Kogi state (HND Business Administration)whose father was present at the lecture.

Speaking at the lecture, a chieftain of Coalition Against Ccorrup tLeaders,Debo Adeniran posited that federal government was sole responsible for the mishap because of terrible standard of living resulting to political miscreants unleashing anger on the slain Corpers. Adeniran opined further that ‘’it’s was government insensitivity to Nigerians’ plight that leads to many heinous activities of youth in recent times.

‘’The fabled unity has been elusive. MEND now mends Nigeria’s map while Boko Haram continues to harass Nigeria’s stability and integrity.

In his own contributions, a human right activist, Alhaji Jubril Ogundimu urged the government to heed to its promise of giving bereaved siblings of the deceased gainful employment, noting that the five million naira given the individual slain Corper’s is not a yard stick to quantify their lives.

—Kayode Aponmade