On Wednesday, October 16, a day after
Muslim folks celebrated Sallah, tragedy struck at Oniwaya Junction,
Agege, Lagos, as a high tension cable electrocuted four people in the
area.
A woman, identified as Mrs. Oluwajedalo
but popularly called Iya Fathia, survived the electrocution but lost his
three-year-old son, Ayomide, who ran towards her and embraced her as
electric shock overtook her.
There is a transformer located at Oniwaya Junction. House no 88 is just two houses away from the transformer.
A resident of the house, Mr. James Eboh,
promptly pointed to a paper on a wall, a poster of the four victims of
the electrocution – Ayomide Oluwajedalo (3), Sunday Hisaun (25), Samson
Akinrinsoye (25) and Matthew (37).
READ MORE AFTER THE CUT
Eboh shook his head and said the three-year-old victim should not have died.
He said, “The incident occurred around
8pm. There was a spark on the transformer over there. As we heard the
spark, everybody scampered for safety because it had happened before.
“A cable detached from the transformer
as the spark went off. It fell on this shop here (in the front of No
88). Iya Fathia moved towards the shop to warn the shop owner, who was
inside at the time. But she stepped on a metal on which the shop was
built.
“As the electric shock went through her
body, she was shaking violently. Ayomide who sighted her mother at the
entrance of the house, ran towards her and embraced her. He died on the
spot. But his mother survived.
“I am the closest friend of Iya Fathia
(Ayomide’s mother) in this house. I was one of those who took her to a
hospital in Egbeda. It is just sad because the woman is not sane at the
moment.”
Asked how Mrs. Oluwajedalo could be
located, Eboh said her family had requested for her discharge at the
hospital in Egbeda where she was undergoing treatment and taken her to
Ijebu-Ode.
“The woman was still in shock and she
did not seem to be improving. The family had spent a lot on her
treatment. They decided to move her to Ijebu-Ode because the cost was
becoming unbearable for them. The last time I spoke with her in Egbeda,
she was not sounding normal. She was only saying, ‘My son is not dead!
My son is okay! My son is not dead,” Eboh said.
He explained that the young victim had been buried at the Jafojo Cemetery.
What is housing doing next to transformers, this is madness.
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