NYSC’s negligence killed Ifedolapo – Father

Mr. Olawale Oladepo, father of Ifedolapo, the corps member who died, recently, at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Kano, after a brief illness, has dismissed claims she died of kidney and urinary tract infection.

He challenged the investigation panel set up by the

Presidency, to unravel the cause of his daughter’s death.

Oladepo who spoke for the first time since his daughter’s death, yesterday, told newsmen in Osogbo, Osun State capital, that Ifedolapo, first class graduate of transport management, from Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, left home for the orientation programme hale and hearty.

Asked whether the family would accept Ifedolapo’s remains to be exhumed for autopsy, Oladepo replied: –

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– “The NYSC has never been engaged in any communication or written any letter to the

family to consider autopsy. Nobody has contacted

the family to exhume the corpse.”

He said autopsy was the last step after the investigation panel set up by the Presidency had submitted its report.

Oladepo, who attributed the death of his daughter to negligence on the part of the NYSC, alleged that when she complained of malaria, the medical personnel at the camp clinic failed to give her prompt medical attention.

He also alleged that it was after they had administered some drugs on her some hours later that she developed complications, after reacting to the drugs.

Ifedolapo’s father also accused the NYSC of failing to take the deceased to a teaching hospital for proper medical attention but, instead, took her to GwarzoGeneral Hospital, Kano, which, he said, did not have adequate medical facilities to attend to her.