Former Corps Member Claps Back At NYSC- Says They Lied!

This is a former Corps Member's experience in Camp and things happen there....She accuses NYSC of lying and covering that the Corps member who died in Kano did so out of Negligence...She states her reasons why....

So i have been reading about the Female Corp member who died in camp and then NYSC coming out to say she died because of an infection, but they are big liars. Whether she had an infection or not, the fact remains that she died out of NEGLIGENCE!. I say this out of my own experience in camp.

I served in Rivers state (leaving the year out though recent). Im not a sickler but im Anaemic. Unfortunately my menses came on the first week of camp(i bleed heavily), by the second week my body couldnt take the stress of camp anymore, i was too weak to move and down with serious malaria. My friend took me to the sick bay and i asked the "corper nurses" for the doctor and they directed me to the "corper doctor". I said please this is serious i need the doctor because he would be able to check me properly and let the camp officials know that my body was too weak for camp activities. 

The corper nurse snapped at me and said if i wanted to see a doctor then i better see the one there. I finally agreed; okay where are the corper doctors? They said one was sleeping because he was tired and the other went to mami. All this was happening while they were gisting and laughing and not even paying attention to me. After waiting for long I had to leave there with my friend supporting me. We went to mami market and i got malaria medication to help myslef first before i collapse. Now those who are familiar with artesunate know that the doses are timed. The next morning i couldnt prepare on time to leave the hostel and the soldiers came to chase, in the whole panic i forgot my medicine on my bed.



They marched us straight to the lecture hall, they wouldnt hear i forgot this or any excuse. I decided to let the tension ease up a bit and obey before complain like they always say. After about 30minutes of lecture i went out and was approaching the soldier manning the road to the hostel. Before i could even get to him he shouted "where you dey go". I told him i was coming to meet him and he dint even listen. Next thing i heard was since you wan stay outside you go do work now. He asked me to start pushing a very big tree till it got to the camp gate. My goodness!!.

 I was too shocked to move. He charged at me with his stick like he wanted to hit me and i said please hear me out. Im sick and i forgot my medicine on my bed, thats all i came out for, please just let me get it and go back to lectures. He said if i dont start pushing the tree il frog jump to the gate. I begged this soldier, i said please touch my neck or head so you can feel my temperature,i need to get my medicine now because it works with time(by that time it was already past the 8hour for the next dose). I said sir please follow me to the hostel so you will see the medicine and water right on my bed! So you will know im not lying. 

I kept pleading with tears already forming and i had to stop when he pushed me to the tree. Stella,in my weak and sick state with my legs shaking, temperature boiling, beside a crowd of corpers watching from lecture hall i was pushing a tree to the gate. And corpers were laughing and taking pictures. The soldier still had the mind to say i wasnt pushing hard enough or do i prefer to frog jump to the gate?. I dont know if my tears were as a result of shame or pain. I pushed till i couldnt take it anymore,my knees gave in and i sat on the floor, i blocked my ears from all his threats and thought; let him do his worst. He left me there on the floor for over two hours until the RSM came and released everyone on punishment; I still dint get my medicine.



The last week of camp i was stung by electric ant popularly known as papa. It stung me at a very odd place(in between my laps and close to the VJ). Because of where the wound was it couldnt heal and was spreading instead because air wasnt getting to that point and it kept rubbing against the other lap. I had to walk in a funny way. I refused to go to the clinic because of the first experience. I endured using ointment but it worsened. One evening my platoon commander called me out that i will run for the platoon. I told him i couldnt run i had an injury, he said i shouldnt give him any excuses. 

I pulled up my shorts and showed him the wound in all its glory(in my mind i have enough evidence). He looked away and still insisted i must run. I was so shocked i stood there looking at him with my mouth open. Next thing i heard was "Shebi you dey disobey orders abi, you be big girl wey no fit run, oya frog jump from here go touch that post". I begged, please my leg is bad, i cant run talk more of frog jump. He started to hala, he would teach me a lesson this and that. The rest of the platoon around(others were scattered about for different games)started begging me to try and do just a few so the punishment doesnt extend to them. 

I bent down with difficulty and after the first leap as i landed my wound tore and i felt every bit of the skin cut, the pain was blinding Stella. When he saw the blood he let me be. They took me back to that useless clinic and a corper nurse went to work cleaning or should i say scrubbing it with Gv. Kai. A lot happened again in that hospital but let me leave that as i have said enough already.

This is my own experience of how negligent NYSC is in respect to human life, it is only until you drop dead that they will hear you out.

So they said that beautiful girl died because of the infection she had right?, they shouldnt have bothered talking. When she cried and begged to be taken to the hospital did you listen?,when her family begged you did you listen?, you only listened when she dropped dead. I thank God my case didnt end like this, the only proof i have to this story are images of the injury on my leg. There is no justification for any wrong doing. NYSC lied!.

From a concerned BV