My Daughter Nursed No Ailment – Father Of Deceased NYSC Member
Mr. Olawale Oladepo, a retired Sanitary Inspector and the father of late Ifedolapo Oladepo, a youth corps member, who died in Kano while undergoing orientation at the National Youth Service Camp, NYSC camp, insisted that the untimely death of his daughter was allegedly caused by negligence of the NYSC.
According to him, Dolapo nursed no ailment before she departed home for Kano at about 6am on Thursday, November 24, and called at regular intervals along the journey till she got to Kano around 1:00am the following day and headed straight for the NYSC Orientation Camp with two other friends.
He wondered how a person, who participated actively and appeared so radiant in all the pictures she sent home could, according to the medical certificate of the cause of her death issued by Gwazo General Hospital have died of kidney infection.
He attributed the death to negligence and lackadaisical attitude of the NYSC, adding that the Corps should come out with a vivid account of what happened to his daughter between 8:00am on Monday that she reported to the camp clinic and the time she passed on at 4:am the second morning.
“The death certificate issued by the Gwazo General Hospital, Kano said she had sepsis that led to kidney infection. I wonder if truly she had kidney infection, did the camp have proper medical facilities to have kept her, and why taking her to the General Hospital with no facilities to treat such ailments?”
Oladepo, has also said that the Federal Government must meet certain conditions before the family would allow the remains of her daughter to be exhumed for post-mortem autopsy.
President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered an independent investigation into the controversial death of the 26-year-old first class graduate in Transport Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho.
To this end, the Minister for Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, had said that Ifedolapo’s remains would be exhumed for autopsy. The family also said they have never been in any communication with anyone on the matter.
The family contended that it will only consider such option after all avenues such as listening to the preceding conversations of Dolapo through communication network had been explored. Addressing newsmen in Osogbo yesterday, the father of the deceased, Mr Olawale Oladepo asked the Federal Government to explore all avenues, including the conversations of the deceased with members of the family before her death.
