A 26-year-old female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Sanni Mariam, of 2023 Batch C Stream 2, and others have died in a fatal motor accident in Imo state.
She died along with the passengers and driver when their vehicle had an accident en route to Lagos on Thursday.
It was gathered that Mariam was returning from her state of deployment, Benue State, and boarded a commercial bus heading to Lagos through Imo.
According to information gathered by Vanguard, Mariam took a camp exit from Benue State. She was undergoing the three-week compulsory orientation. And camping was expected to end by Thursday next week.
Mariam, a Computer Science graduate from Universite Protestante de Lafrique de l’Ouest, Benin Republic, was said to have won many awards for her platoon, including the Scrabble platoon game.
Efforts to contact the Benue State NYSC State Coordinator proved unsuccessful. He was neither taking calls nor responding to messages at press time.
In another development, hundreds of residents have reportedly evacuated their ancestral home in Kidandan, a community in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State after a group of bandits raided the area.
The bandits, who had been causing terror in the community, reportedly became even more aggressive due to the farmers’ failure to pay levies imposed on them.
It was gathered that many locals were tragically killed during the recent raid, and many others were abducted.
However, the Kaduna State command of the Nigeria Police Force has not yet responded to the latest attack as of the time of filing this report.
The attack in Kidandan follows the recent tragic bombing of locals in Tudun Biri village by an Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Igabi Local Government Area. In Tudun Biri, over 120 people lost their lives, and more than 70 were hospitalized.
“For the past 6 days, the bandits have been coming to Kidandan, but this attack was devastating. They came and terrified us, stole and abducted our people. Every resident in Kidandan lives in extreme fear.
“Our women and children are leaving in droves. The number of those who embarked on this forceful and unprepared exodus would surprise you. They are moving to safety, perhaps to Zaria and other seemingly safe locations to squat with friends and relatives,” ” a local who spoke on condition of anonymity told Vanguard.
He claimed that rather than maintaining a constant security presence in the community, the agents only conducted patrols, allowing the bandits to operate whenever they were aware that the security personnel had left.
