Ogun NYSC official arraigned over corper’s death, remanded in prison

The Local Government Inspector, LGI, of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Abeokuta South Local Government Area, Abass Olalekan, has been arraigned earlier a magistrate tribunal sitting successful Isabo.

Olalekan was arrested and arraigned pursuing the decease of Victoria Ariyo, a corps member.

Ariyo who served nether the Abeokuta South Local Government Area of the NYSC wherever Olalekan works arsenic the LGI, reportedly died from gestation complications.

Sources claimed that the LGI was progressive successful a romanticist narration with the deceased, which yet led to pregnancy, and a termination that led to her death.

Olalekan, aged 43, connected Monday appeared earlier the presiding magistrate, A. K Araba, connected a two-count complaint of conspiracy and effort to procure abortion.

He pleaded not guilty.

The complaint expanse MA/22/99/2026 read:

“Count 1. That you Abbas Olalekan and others astatine ample betwixt January to March 2026, astatine Ikereku country Laderin, Abeokuta, In the Abeokuta Magisterial District did conspire among yourself to perpetrate felony to wit: Abortion and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable nether Section 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State 2006.

“Count II: That you: Abbas Olalekan and others astatine ample successful the aforesaid date, clip and spot successful Aforementioned Magisterial territory did unlawfully effort to procure termination by supplying Ariyo Victotia Olapeju ‘F” drugs and th...