A Batch ‘B’ corps member, Jeremiah Osewe, at the Issele-Uku
Orientation Camp near Asaba, Delta State, almost choked his girlfriend
to death on Monday over a rival corps member.
It was reliably gathered that the victim, Stella Omorodion, before
coming to the orientation camp, had a boyfriend who was unknown to her
boyfriend at the camp.
Sources said that trouble started when Stella’s former boyfriend was
redeployed from Zamfara State to Delta State, and after making enquiries
discovered that Stella was in the camp at Issele-Uku.
The sources added that the duo resumed their relationship. It was
learnt that the victim and her former lover boy were sighted at the
popular Mammy Market in the community by the enraged corps member who
was alleged to have mobilised his friends to the scene.
Speaking to our correspondent, the state coordinator of the National
Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Esther Etukudo, said, “We got the
report of what transpired between two NYSC members and our findings
revealed that it was a rival love relationship; the girl was almost
strangled to death by the angry corps member who claimed to be her
boyfriend after what would have been a bloodbath;
they took the girl to the hospital for treatment and the boy was sanctioned for indiscipline.”