The National Youth Service Corps has paid one million insurance cover to the family of Precious Owolabi, the Channels Television reporter and serving corps member, who was shot dead during a bloody protest by members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Abuja in July. The scheme has also processed and paid the families of two corps members-Okanlawon Ibrahim and Ibisaki Amachree who died during the conduct of the 2019 general elections.

Amachree was killed during the February 23, 2019 presidential election in Rivers State while Okanlawon died in a boat mishap in Ondo while serving as an ad hoc work deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission during the House of Assembly elections. The NYSC, had in a letter dated July 30th and sighted by our reporter, directed the insurance company engaged by the federal government on behalf of the scheme to process one million insurance benefit to the next of kin of the late Owolabi.

The insurance benefit was paid to Beracah Owolabi, the next of kin to the late Owolabi, by the insurance company on behalf of the NYSC. Beracah confirmed the payment of the amount to our reporter through telephone in Abuja. She said: “Yes they have made the payment to us. The payment was done in August.”

However, a top source at the NYSC told our reporter that the Independent National Electoral Commission was yet to pay Okanlawon and Amichree their insurance benefits as stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the scheme had with INEC. The source explained that INEC was supposed to provide a temporary insurance cover for corps members who served as ad hoc staff during elections. When our reporter contacted the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Festus Okoye, last week Sunday to find out if the commission have processed any insurance benefit for the slain corps members, he promised to get back to the reporter on Tuesday.

Also, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, in a Whatsapp message, only said: “The commission has an insurance package for the corps members serving as Ad-Hoc staff during elections and we have a history of responding compassionately when corps members or any ad-Hoc staff is injured or killed. Also, INEC sent a delegation led by Mr Patrick Uzoka, an Electoral Officer to condole with the family of Mrs Ibisaki Amachree who lost her life in Rivers State during the February 23 Presidential Election.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/nysc-pays-n1m-insurance-compensation-to-late-channels-tv-reporter-two-others/amp/

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Its quite unfortunate. Am glad becos they didnt sweep this under the carpet.

Only 1million

1million naira? For what abeg...smh

only? shithole amount

maybe its monthly or yearly

but that money will just cover funeral costs

they should have just kept their miserable money instead of giving such embarrassing amount

na human being or chicken die??

Not less than 200 million should be paid.

bleeped up country

Bad decision, 1million is too low to cover the damage done.

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Insurance? Welcome development
But 1million naira? Come on, u can do better.

Not the proper way to handle this.
Compensation is good.
But what happens to investigations first?
How can inexperienced graduate be given such assignment...
NYSC should investigate first,maybe the guy took up the task by himself or He was assigned to it.

1m is a slap to the family.

Chai, 1m for person wey kpai for the kwontiri

ThisCouldBeUs:
Not less than 200 million should be paid.

I wonder oo, someone is paying tacha 50m for been disqualified and FG is paying her candidates 1m for dying. Nysc, I no do again...

₦1 million is too little an amount. I'm sure someone has stolen the money somewhere

Nysc is shameless. How can they pay 1m and still be publisizing it. If it happened to any of their family, would they have taken it ?
That was how I had a bike accident during my service year and broke my leg, this foolish nysc did nothing . the officials were just coming to see updates. No medical bill, nothing . this program is just an avenue for some pple to enrich themselves. Shikena.
They should scrap it .

I am expecting to fix up one of the deceased person into federal govt work so to give a bit relief to the family but to be sincere with ourselves, 1m is nothing but I figure before we know it... it has finished.


I pray that God will console the family of the late person!

That's a paltry sum. Not that money could bring him back. But at least they should pay an amount that may help offset some bills and other things. Damn. This is beyond sad.

1M?
The tuition fees he paid from Kg to 500level should be over 1m.
The daily allowance he got from his his parents right from creche till the death period should be over 5M.
The feeding right from when he was a kid..lasan.. that one is uncalculatable!
His clothing, his housing, his dreams,the joy of watching him grow. All these are over 50M.

And his parents were consoled with just 1M? for real?

Chill, OH GOD! his burial alone would cost close to 1M.

If you won't be consoling the family, please do not mock them with an annoying compensation.

God help all youth in this country, God guide us and lead us aright!!!!

The only NYSC budget, they could only cough out 1M? 1M that any boss could single handedly drop

Only if the knew how much it cost to train that young man from primary school to university,

This is nonsense nah
Do you know how corpers are gone during service?
No compensation for them
1milli, this is painful

The guy is dead but tacha is still alive and at the same time smelling
I am done with this country

One month of the guy's salary if he were to be alive

Just 1million, for a life so full of prospect! It is well.
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Badmod:
Not the proper way to handle this.
Compensation is good.
But what happens to investigations first?
How can inexperienced graduate be given such assignment...
NYSC should investigate first,maybe the guy took up the task by himself or He was assigned to it.

My thought exactly. I know that the guy knows the implication of such assignment. So investigation should also be done to curtail future reoccurrence.

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I wonder oo, someone is paying tacha 50m for been disqualified and FG is paying her candidates 1m for dying. Nysc, I no do again...

Hmmmmm, this is deep.

We are a disgrace of a country. 1m Naira INEC?

That amount is less that US$3,000