Two Corps Members Perish In Auto Crash After Orientation Course – NYSC

The corp members Nazir Muhammad Yahaya and Fatima

Brigadier General Muhammad Fadah, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps has condoled the bereaved families of two corps members that perished in a tragic motor accident.

The youth corps members, Nazir Muhammad Yahaya and Fatima died on their way back home to Kaduna State after the 2022 Batch “B” Stream One Orientation Course in Adamawa State.

A statement signed by NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, said the deceased was on relocation from Adamawa to Kano State before the unfortunate accident occured along Zaria/Kano highway after their registration in Kano.

The Director-General paid condolence visits to the bereaved families in Kaduna on Thursday, July 21.

The DG also visited the other two corps members that survived the accident but receiving treatment at the 44 Military Hospital in Kaduna and prayed for their quick recovery.

"The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Muhammad Kaku Fadah on behalf of the NYSC Management has condoled with the families of two Corps Members that lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident on their way back home to Kaduna State after the 2022 Batch "B" Stream One Orientation Course in Adamawa State," the statement read.

"The deceased were on relocation from Adamawa to Kano State before the unfortunate accident occured along Zaria/Kano highway after their registration in Kano

"Speaking during his condolence visits to the bereaved families today in Kaduna, General Fadah commended the patriotic spirit of the deceased Corps Members who paid the supreme sacrifice while serving their fatherland. He thereafter prayed for the repose of their souls."

"The Director-General had visited the other two Corps Members that survived the accident but were receiving treatment at the 44 Military Hospital in Kaduna. The General, therefore, pray for their quick recovery."

He added that the Scheme would do everything possible to put a smile on their faces.

General Fadah commended the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Colonel NS Onuchukwu and his staff for providing adequate medicare for the hospitalized Corps Members.

The CMD assured the Director General that the hospital would do everything possible to ensure that the injured Corps Members receive prompt and necessary medical attention.