Tears as Clarks nephew killed in Bauchi is brought home

TEARS flowed yesterday as the remains of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Eliot Adowe, a nephew of the Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, who was brutally killed in the post-presidential election violence in Bauchi State, was brought home in Delta State.The deceased, The Guardian gathered, had completed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) assignment in March but was among those short-listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as an electoral officer.The late Eliots mother, Madam Unuendjen, who is Clarks younger sister, said her son called that they were being attacked by an irate mob and that he and other corps members were taking refuge in a police station.The deceased was said to have pleaded that he ran out of airtime and that recharge card should be sent to him. The recharge card was promptly sent to him, but when Madam Unuendjen called her sons cell phone number later to find out if he received the recharge card, a female voice answered in a terse voice: We burnt down the police station and killed them all because of Jonathan!A very sad Clark said the deceased lived with him at some point and that he financed his schooling. He said it was saddening that the boy died the way he did when he was serving his fatherland.Clark said he is not against the use of youth corps members by INEC but that adequate security must be provided to protect them.We all belong in this country and youth corps members are agents of development. These children were serving their country when they were brutally murdered, the Ijaw leader lamented.Elliots body was one of the nine evacuated from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) mortuary and taken to their various states of origin for burial on Saturday.The slain corps members were evacuated by officials of the National Headquarters of the NYSC, Abuja, led by Mr. Yakubu Jok.  
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