NYSC Corp Member Almost Tortured To Death In Nasarawa Camp

Report not written by me. It was sent to me
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One of the Batch A Corp members
currently in Nasarawa state
Orientation Camp yesterday almost
lost his life at the camp due to
extreme torture by security
operatives. The Corp Member Bunmi
Adeyera (pictured above) with the
State Code: NS/15A/0134 and Call-
up no: NYSC/NIJ/2015/061287 who
is said to be sick was today locked-
up in the guard room for hours until
he collapsed and became
unconscious in the Guard room.
An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity has
full details. Read excerpts below:
“To all my fellow NYSC corp
members around Nigeria, today, I
witnessed how one of my colleagues,
Adeyera Oubunmi (State code:
NS/15A/0134)(Call-up no.: NYSC/
NIJ/2015/061287) almost died due to
maltreatment in Nasarawa state
NYSC camp by security officials.
What happened this morning was
that Bunmi Adeyera who is also
Platoon 4 leader and was obviously
sick went to the Camp clinic to
collect some drugs to combat his
ailment and was approaching the
camp market to get food (since food
was no longer available in the camp
kitchen) in order to use his drugs
when he was stopped by security
operatives (Nigerian Police force and
Man’O War) and was asked to go
back into the camp hall for lectures.
He tried explaining to them that he
was sick and needed to take his
drugs but they did not listen to him,
rather he was told to start ‘frog-
jumping’. Bunmi quietly explained to
them that he might not be able to
‘frog-jump’ because of his health
status.
The next thing I saw was that the
security operatives (who were
obviously Hausas, because they
communicated fluently in Hausa
language) told asked him if he was
Hausa or Yoruba. When he told them
he was Yoruba and he hails Lagos
state, they seized his NYSC
identification tag and marched him
straight to the ‘Guard room’
allegations of ‘being stubborn’
without give him any chance of
speaking in his own defense.
This place called Guard room is a
bathroom located at the entrance
gate of the Nasarawa Camp where
soldiers urinate at all time and with
no cross-ventilation.
We all watched them take the poor
sick Corp member to the Guard
Room, and was detained there going
to three hours. The next thing I saw
was people from the camp medical
unit running towards the gate with
stretcher in their hands. Behold
Bunmi had collapsed and fainted in
the so-called guard room.
Even while the Red Cross team was
trying to rescue the situation, the
soldiers sent them back saying that
all was pretence and that when he
wakes up, he will return to the guard
room.
The doctors battled for his life for
about an hour before Bunmi Adeyera
became conscious again and was
later stabilized.
Every Corp member on Camp
including NYSC officials know Bunmi
to be easy-going, obedient and friend
to all which is more reason he
emerged the leader of Platoon 4.
The population of those who went to
the clinic to check on him is one that
I have never seen on camp although
they wouldn’t allow us take pictures
of this ugly incidence.
But my question is this why is it that
we Corp members who have in good
faith and humility come to serve our
father land are being maltreated even
to the extent of someone fainting.
This should not continue.”
Bunmi Adeyera is a graduate of Nigerian
Institute of Journalism, Lagos. All attempts
to reach the Nasarawa state co-ordinator,
Mrs. C.I Uba, proved abortive.