November 04, (THEWILL) – A 26-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Zainab Sanni Oyindamola, has been declared dead in the 21-storey building that collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.
The lifeless body of Zainab, who was working with the construction company, Fourscore Homes Limited, was pulled out from the rubbles on Wednesday, November 3 and this has dashed the hope of her family members who have been at the scene waiting for good news.
According to available information, the mother of the deceased got her redeployed from Borno State due to insecurity.
According to Daily Trust, the deceased was among the six Corps members deployed to the company. However, others escaped on that fateful day but Zainab was trapped in the rubbles.
A source at the NYSC revealed that presently, Oyindamola was the only corps member who died in the incident.
“Oyin as she was fondly called was a 2021 batch B corps member who was originally deployed to Maiduguri but got a redeployment to Lagos after the three-week orientation,” the source said.
A family member, who spoke with journalists at the scene of the incident, stated that Oyindamola resumed work at the company about three weeks ago.
“She has been coming here since then. We don’t even know why they sent her here. She was originally posted to Borno but her mother redeployed her. If we had known, we would have allowed her to continue her youth service in that state, the family source said.
“We asked her not to go to Borno because of the insurgency but she went there for the three-week orientation and came back alive only to come and die. She was a very humble and respectful girl, she would greet everybody when she arrived from work every day. She is the first daughter of her mother and they are just two.”
