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 mobilized his friends to the scene.
On getting to
the scene, it was further gathered that the angry corps member grabbed
the neck of the victim and started squeezing it till she almost died
before fellow corps members rushed to the scene to save the situation.
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.”