NYSC call member in prison as a pupil dies after 2 strokes of cane.

Like a cruel joke being played, a female member of the National
Youths Service Corps(NYSC) landed into trouble after a student she
caned died days later.


Detectives at the Homicide section of State Criminal Investigation
Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan are trying to resolve the mystery behind
the death one Esther Oyeleke, a 14-year old JSS1 student
of Akingbile Oluana Grammar School, Moniya, Ibadan, the corper's
place of primary assignment.

According to reports,on January 24, the Corper was said to have
given Oyeleke and 5 other students two strokes of the cane each for
playing during teaching period and for not responding when she asked
their colleagues to call them.

Nigerian Tribune reports:

Surprisingly, the parents of the girl brought her back to the school
on January 27 and said the hand on which she was beaten was swollen.
With the belief that two strokes of cane could not cause such an
injury, the parents were advised to take the girl to the hospital
for medical treatment.

From a swollen hand, the girl's condition deteriorated so much that
by January 30, her entire body became swollen, according to
information gathered by Crime Reports, and it was then she was taken
to one Osoko Maternity Hospital where she was confirmed dead.

Her death reportedly led to a mini protest as the girl's relations
went to the school to disruptacademic activities. When the case was
reported at Moniya Division, it was immediately transferred to the
State CID for investigations.

In an interview with Crime Reports, the youth corps member, an
indigene of a town in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State and a 2012 graduate
of a polytechnic, said she believed she was not responsible for the
girl's death and should not be made to suffer unjustly. According to
the Office Technology and Management graduate, 'I am one of the
corpers deployed to Akingbile Oluana Memorial School, Moniya. I
was teaching JSS1 students Basic Science.

'On January 24, the students went to play outside the class and I
told some of their colleagues to go and call them so that I could mark
the attendance for the day. I could not speak loud then because I lost
my voice. Some of them responded to my call while others did not.
Because of this, I gave the disobedient ones two strokes of cane each
on their palms in the classroom.

'On January 27, one of them, a female, was brought to the school and
I was told that her hand was swollen. I said it could not be because
of the caning, as there was even no mark on her palm. As her teacher,
I asked her colleagues whether they knew her residence so that I could
go and greet her but they said they did not.

'On January 30, the principal called me and said that she learnt
that the entire body of the girl was swollen. Her family was said to
have brought some people who disrupted the activities of the school.
The principal said she enquired whether she had been taken to
the hospital but the family members replied in the negative. She
asked that she should be taken to the hospital.

'I was at a meeting of youth corps members when I was called that we
should go and pay the girl a visit in the hospital. By the time we got
to the hospital, one of the teachers came to me and said she learnt
that the student was dead.

'On January 1, I went to our coordinator at the local government
council before going to the state council of the NYSC to report what
happened. I was brought to the State CID by the coordinators and I
have been in detention since then.

'I am surprised because she was not the only that I gave two strokes
of cane. What I know is that whatever is hidden from man is clear
before God Almighty. I believe that it was not the strokes of cane
that caused the girl's death. I know I have done nothing wrong and
it would not be good to make an innocent person suffer unjustly.'

The police spokesperson in Oyo State, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor
confirmed the story, when contacted, stating that detectives were
still investigating the story. She said that the corpse of the
deceased girl had been deposited at the State Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan
for autopsy.
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