Bauchi Poly Graduate Dies On His Way To NYSC Orientation Camp

A Higher National Diploma, HND graduate of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, Matu Esky has reportedly died in a ghastly motor accident.

Naija News understands that the young graduate was travelling to Katsina State for the three weeks National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, mandatory orientation exercise when the accident happened.

Reports made available to newsmen revealed that the accident happened last Friday in Jigawa State. The incident also claimed the lives of other passengers in the same vehicle as Esky.

Naija News learnt that Esky, a resident of Ungwan Maryam in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi state, was the firstborn of a family of four children.

The deceased reportedly studied Architecture at both National Diploma and Higher National Diploma levels.

A cousin to the deceased, Nuhu Arewa, who disclosed Esky’s death to PUNCH Metro on Sunday night, said Esky, popularly called “Phil Chase”, was an upcoming artist in Bauchi State and that he was passionate about music.

Nuhu said: “Yes, the incident is true, he was my cousin. He was a very talented and promising young man.

“He was posted to Maiduguri, Borno state for his one-year national youth service but their orientation camp is to hold in Katsina state. So, he was on his way to the camp that Friday when the unfortunate incident happened.

“He boarded a vehicle to Kano State, where he was to board another vehicle that would take him to Katsina. Unfortunately, he did not even reach Kano because the crash occurred in Jigawa State and he died.”

Arewa, who described the incident as very sad and painful, said he saw the deceased last that same day when he was about to leave Bauchi for the orientation camp.

He added: “I saw him last that same Friday shortly before he left town for Katsina. He was in a car which was going to his house to pick his things and go on his journey. He saw me and waved me; that was the last time I saw him, only for us to hear of this sad and pathetic news that he died in a fatal crash in Jigawa.”

“Humanly speaking, I feel very sad but since God is the giver of life and he takes it anytime being who he is, I am okay with that. I take it as the doing of the Lord because that is how he proves who he is,” Arewa stated.