It was just like any
other beautiful day in warri, the sun was shinning and the birds were singing.
I was so happy because i finally had the time to do some shopping at the
popular Igbo market just before the Sacred Heart Cathedral here in warri.
little did i know i was about to
hear some touching and terrifying news.
When i arrived, the
first thing that caught my attention was the unusual crowd in the area, i was
perplexed but later calmed down because i knew it was a popular market even
though i havnt seen that much crowd in a while, i just felt the market was
booming that day so i adjusted my phones just incase someone wanted to play a
fast on on me. I later noticed some armed police in the region and i decided to
ask around , i found out that the armed policemen were guarding the current
flood victims in delta state as they were camped in the Cavagina Government
Secondary school as shown below.
I was kinda happy
because i have not seen any government impact or intervention in the lives of
the citizens of the state since governor uduaghan came into power for his
second tenure. Anyways i am not here to talk politics, am here to talk about
the disturbing story i was later told.
After my shopping i
stopped by to have a cool drink at Enameguonor Ukoko's shop and while he served
me, he began lamenting on some issues. At first i ignored him because it was
somewhat annoying but then he let the cat of the bag. this was his story.
It happened in the
late hours on Friday , All they heard was a crack, and before they knew what
was going on, the high tension wire was already on the ground and four people
were trapped under it and they were burning. It all happened so fast and
according to Enameguono, people were running helter skelter , no one could stop
and think about saving the vitcims or even call the nearest power station to
cut off the supply, all they did was abandon their shops and ran as far as they
could away from the scene leaving the burning victims to their faith.
Enameguono however said there was a struggling victim who was physically
fighting the cables off his body and then when someone who saw his zeal to live
had pity on him, took an umbrella tried to save him by removing the wires.
little did he know that that umbrella was made of iron and could conduct
electricity and this automatically made him the 5th victim. but as luck would
have it, he and the person struggling with life made it out miraculously i '
say though with severe burns and eye witness said it was impossible to
determine if they would make it at the hospital as they were all transferred to
the general hospital not far away after like 2 hours. The shop owners were
bitter by the way the government officials delayed before they took the corpses
away and also with the PHCN staff seen below joining wires together instead of
bringing new equipment's to fix this and prevent this from ever occurring
again.
As at the time of
writing this report, it was unclear if the surviving victims were alright as i
could not reach any staff of the hospital. May God save us in this country.
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