Female NYSC Corps Member Bitten by Her Employer's 3 Dogs Cries for Help (Photo)
A
National Youth Service Corps member in Bayelsa State has cried out for
help over pains caused by bites she sustained after she was attacked by
three dogs belonging to her employer.
Miss Loretta Okoro
A 28-year-old female National Youth Service Corps member, Loretta
Okoro, who is serving her fatherland in Bayelsa State, has cried out for
help over pains caused by bites she sustained from her employer, Prof.
Klem Imananah's dogs.
Punch reported
that the corps member was attacked and bitten by three security dogs
who reportedly pounced on her about 7:00pm in her employer’s house on
December 5, 2015, where she was posted for her primary assignment at
Opolo in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa state.
In an exclusive chat with a correspondent on Tuesday, the NYSC
member lamented that her employer and the state chapter of the NYSC had
abandoned her to her fate, and alleged that since the incident occurred,
she had not gone through proper medical treatment and that her health
had deteriorated.
Okoro, a member of Stream A, with NYSC number NUA/2015/162926, said
though the wounds had healed on the surface, she later started
suffering from hallucination, numbness, mental torture and psychological
imbalance, and accused her employer of neglect.
“On December 5, 2015, I was attacked by three dogs owned by
Prof. Imananah who I was attached to. The first hospital I was taken to
had no doctor to attend to me.
“I called a friend of mine who came to take me to the Federal
Medical Centre in Yenagoa. The injuries were cleaned every day and I was
given injections. I spent three weeks at the hospital and later went
home.
“The following day after being discharged, I started feeling
some strange ailment. I have been trying to be stable since then. I can
no longer sleep. I see strange and horrible things in my dreams. I have
been reaching out to the NYSC to know if they can be of help, but
nothing has happened till now. They claimed I am only pretending.
“Even the owner of the dogs has been threatening me with court
action, saying that I am embarrassing him. I have not been able to do
anything. Things have gone beyond my imagination. I have yet to get back
to normal,” she said.
Okoro, an indigene of Imo State, appealed to the federal and state
governments to wade into the matter, adding that the NYSC in the state
had not given her matter the attention it deserved, adding that since
the incident occurred, no one from the NYSC had called to know her
condition.
Another NYSC member who is a colleague to Okoro, said the victim’s
health had worsened, adding that she needed urgent medical attention.
“It was unpleasant on Monday evening. She was hallucinating and
screaming throughout the night. I knew her from the camp. But now,
everything about her health has changed. NYSC is supposed to protect
corps members. But with what I have seen in the case of Lorreta Okoro,
we are just on our own. If something urgent is not done, Lorreta may
lose her life,” Kingsley said.
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