3-year-old Boy Dies While Hugging Electrocuted Mum And 3 Others In Lagos -

**Oh Nigeria...~SAD~

Victims of the electrocution

at Oniwaya

Junction, Agege

According to PUNCH report,

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.

The incident was still a hot

topic of

discussion when Saturday

PUNCH

visited the area on Tuesday

as some

people were seen

discussing it in the

front of house Number 88,

Oniwaya

Road, where the incident

occurred.

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).

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.

Abiola Oladimeji, who was

in his shop

when the high tension cable

fell on it,

said he survived by divine

grace. “I was

told Iya Fathia was coming

to alert us

when she was electrocuted.

It is just

unfortunate”, he said.

It was a wonder that

Oladimeji was not

electrocuted because his

shop on which

the cable fell is a moveable

metal

container.

When Saturday PUNCH got

to the scene

on Tuesday, the cable that

caused the

electrocution had been

removed. It is

common to see high

tension cables

hanging precariously over

residential

areas in Lagos.