The father of Ifedolapo Oladepo, the corps member from Osun State who died recently at the camp of the National Youth Service Corps in Kano State, Mr. Olawale Oladepo, has said that the Federal Government must meet certain conditions before the family would allow the remains of her daughter to be exhumed for post-mortem autopsy.
President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered an independent investigation into the controversial death of the 26-year-old first class graduate in Transport Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho.
To this end, the Minister for Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, had said that Ifedolapo’s remains would be exhumed for autopsy.
But addressing a press conference in Ile-Ife on Monday, the deceased’s father gave a detailed account of how the corps member died due to alleged negligence and lackadaisical attitude of the officials of the NYSC in Kano.
He said that the proposed autopsy to be conducted on the remains of Ifedolapo would be possible after all circumstances leading to her death would have been explored.
The conditions, according to Oladepo, would include listening to the preceding telephone conversations between Ifedolapo and some of her family members before her death.
While disclosing that the family had not been contacted over the proposed autopsy, Oladepo added that the Federal Government should give detailed account of Ifedolapo’s death before exhuming her corpse.
According to him, Ifedolapo was not suffering from any form of ailment before she departed home for Kano at about 6am and phoned at regular intervals while on the journey until she got to Kano around 1:00am the following day and headed straight to the NYSC Orientation Camp in company with two of her friends.
Giving further account of his daughter’s demise, Oladepo said, “Dolapo nursed no ailment. On that Saturday, she sent home all the pictures taken with fanfair with some of her friends and she looked hale and hearty that day, according to the pictures, as she participated in all activities of the day.
“I now wonder if a person who has kidney infection, as claimed by the NYSC, could participate and be so radiant in all the pictures she sent.
“My question now directed to the NYSC is to give the family and the entire world a vivid account of what happened to her between 8am on Monday that she reported to the camp clinic and the time she passed on at 4am the second morning as reported by them. The doctor on duty at the Gwazo General Hospital, Kano, said she was brought to the hospital one hour before she died according to The Punch newspaper.
“The death certificate issued by the Gwazo General Hospital, Kano said she had Sepsis that led to kidney infection. I wonder if truly she had kidney infection. Did the camp have proper medical facilities to have kept her; and why taking her to the General Hospital with no facility to treat such ailments?
“Hence, by implication, whatever ailment may have developed when she got to camp could not have resulted to death if she had been promptly attended to and taken care of. However, she died out of negligence and the lackadaisical attitude of the NYSC.
“Lest I forget, the NYSC may now tell me what the relationship is between the secondhand knickers she was alleged to have worn, the rashes on her body, the twisted tongue, the blood patches on her skin, the fingers and toes that turned black, the slurred speech and the kidney infection they claimed she had. Until they give answers to these questions, we have little to talk about! This is not in a way to indict anybody but to bring out the truth of the whole scenario.”
To this end, the Minister for Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, had said that Ifedolapo’s remains would be exhumed for autopsy.
But addressing a press conference in Ile-Ife on Monday, the deceased’s father gave a detailed account of how the corps member died due to alleged negligence and lackadaisical attitude of the officials of the NYSC in Kano.
He said that the proposed autopsy to be conducted on the remains of Ifedolapo would be possible after all circumstances leading to her death would have been explored.
The conditions, according to Oladepo, would include listening to the preceding telephone conversations between Ifedolapo and some of her family members before her death.
While disclosing that the family had not been contacted over the proposed autopsy, Oladepo added that the Federal Government should give detailed account of Ifedolapo’s death before exhuming her corpse.
According to him, Ifedolapo was not suffering from any form of ailment before she departed home for Kano at about 6am and phoned at regular intervals while on the journey until she got to Kano around 1:00am the following day and headed straight to the NYSC Orientation Camp in company with two of her friends.
Giving further account of his daughter’s demise, Oladepo said, “Dolapo nursed no ailment. On that Saturday, she sent home all the pictures taken with fanfair with some of her friends and she looked hale and hearty that day, according to the pictures, as she participated in all activities of the day.
“I now wonder if a person who has kidney infection, as claimed by the NYSC, could participate and be so radiant in all the pictures she sent.
“My question now directed to the NYSC is to give the family and the entire world a vivid account of what happened to her between 8am on Monday that she reported to the camp clinic and the time she passed on at 4am the second morning as reported by them. The doctor on duty at the Gwazo General Hospital, Kano, said she was brought to the hospital one hour before she died according to The Punch newspaper.
“The death certificate issued by the Gwazo General Hospital, Kano said she had Sepsis that led to kidney infection. I wonder if truly she had kidney infection. Did the camp have proper medical facilities to have kept her; and why taking her to the General Hospital with no facility to treat such ailments?
“Hence, by implication, whatever ailment may have developed when she got to camp could not have resulted to death if she had been promptly attended to and taken care of. However, she died out of negligence and the lackadaisical attitude of the NYSC.
“Lest I forget, the NYSC may now tell me what the relationship is between the secondhand knickers she was alleged to have worn, the rashes on her body, the twisted tongue, the blood patches on her skin, the fingers and toes that turned black, the slurred speech and the kidney infection they claimed she had. Until they give answers to these questions, we have little to talk about! This is not in a way to indict anybody but to bring out the truth of the whole scenario.”
