The story of a 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps member, Zainab Sanni Oyindamola Ayinke, is moving many people to tears.
Fearing the insecurity constituted by Boko Haram and other deadly gangs’ insurgency in Borno State, she got relocated to Lagos three weeks ago.
She got an opening for her primary assignment with Fourscore, owners of the 21-floor building that collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday.
She was among the unlucky 36 who have so far been pulled out dead.
The incident has cast agony on her parents, other relatives, friends and co-corps members.
Oyindamola’s story invokes that of Onyinye Enekwe, also 26, billed to get married next months but is also trapped in the rubble.
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According to ‘Daily Trust’, Oyindamola was among the six Corps members deployed to the company. But while others escaped by whisker on the fateful day, Oyindamola got trapped in the rubbles.
It quoted a source close to NYSC: “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.”
A family member, who spoke with journalists at the scene of the incident, said 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.”
