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Ikoyi Building Collapse: Redeployed Female Corps Member Confirmed Dead

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3 years ago

Nov 5, 2021.

A redeployed female corps member has been confirmed dead in the Ikoyi Building Collapse.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a 26-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Zainab Sanni Oyindamola, has been confirmed dead in the 21-storey building that collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.

Zainab was confirmed to be serving with the construction company, Fourscore Homes Limited.

However, her lifeless body was pulled out from the rubbles on Wednesday, dashing the hope of her family members who have been at the scene hoping for her to be rescued alive.

It was gathered that the deceased’s mother got her redeployed from Borno State to Lagos State due to insecurity.

According to Daily Trust, the deceased was among the six corps members deployed to the company.

But while others escaped by whisker on the day the building collapsed, Oyindamola got trapped in the rubbles.

A source at the NYSC further confirmed that as of now, Oyindamola was the only corps member who died in the incident.

“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,” the source said.

A family member, who spoke to newsmen 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.

“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,” the family source added.

Meanwhile, friends and colleagues have taken to Facebook to mourn the deceased.

One Agboola Yusuf Olatunji posted her photos on Thursday night, saying, “She was among the victims of the 21-storey building collapse at Ikoyi but we lost her.