The body of deceased corps member who died while at the orientation camp in Kwara Stare, has been taken home. 
Eva Amadi
According to Punch Metro, the Family, friends and associates of a
late member of the National Youth Service Corps, Eva Amadi, wept
uncontrollably on Monday as the body of the deceased was conveyed from
Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to her home town in Rivers State.
Amadi, who was among new corps members undergoing orientation in
Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, reportedly suffered a bone
fracture during a morning drill on Monday, April 23 and died on
Thursday.
A native of Rivers State, she attended the University of Port
Harcourt where she obtained a Bachelor degree in Oil and Gas
Engineering.
The Public Relations Officer of the NYSC in Kwara, Mr. Oladipo
Morakinyo, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, confirmed
that the body of the deceased was conveyed in an NYSC ambulance from
the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, where she was confirmed
dead and embalmed, to Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State.
He noted that the Federal Government, through the NYSC, bought the
casket and paid the hospital and embalment bills, as well as other
burial expenses.
Meanwhile, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that Amadi should be immortalised.
Saraki, who paid a condolence visit to the officials and corps
members at the Yikpata Orientation camp, also described Amadi’s death as
a sad event.
The Senate President noted that the facilities at the camp were
inadequate and he pledged that efforts would be made to upgrade them.
“Please stay focused and committed. We promise that we will do
our best to ensure that the future is bright. We are there thinking of
you and to see how to make your life and time here very fruitful,” he told the corps members.
The Kwara State Coordinator of the NYSC, Mr. Remigus Amaefule, described the deceased as “a young lady who was full of life, intelligent, beautiful and was very active in all the camp activities”.
Also, the NYSC Director-General, Brig-Gen. Zakari Kazaure,
described Amadi’s death as painful. He said that all corps members
mobilised for national service were covered by a life insurance policy.
He expressed optimism that the Federal Government would pay compensation
to the family of the late corps member.
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