An uncontrollable amount of grief has met the death of a female NYSC member who was crushed by a train in Ikeja, Lagos.
The loved ones of a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Nneka Odili, who died following injuries sustained in
She was reportedly crushed by the railway vehicle on Thursday, March 8, 2018.
Loud sounds given as a warning by observers who watched the sad development occur had failed to alert her of an incoming train.
This was reportedly as a result of a headphone plugged to the ear of the deceased.
“Nneka’s death is something I still don’t believe is real. How can she just die like that, somebody I still related with not too long before then?
"I really cannot say much; her death is one of the most painful things to have happened around me,"Oma, a close friend of the victim told Punch News in a report.
Her feelings though grave was however lesser to one expressed on Facebook by Jessica Odili, a relation of the deceased who completed a course in Home Economics at the Federal College of Education, Technical, Omoku, Rivers State.
The mourner who seemed resigned to her fate could only mutter a few words in respect to the incident which has brought devastation to loved ones.
“After so much joy in the family this period, the devil decided to give us sadness. RIP the best sister and aunty. What a life," writes Odili.
Her pain bears a similar reflection to a grandmother, Mrs. Oyesanya, who lost her grandson in a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) accident.
Grandmom cries over pupil beheaded by BRT
“We fed Ezekiel at 7:15am but picked up his corpse two hours later, at about 9:45am,” says Mrs. Oyesanya, the grandmom of Daniel Ezekiel, a pupil who was killed by a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos.
On Monday, March 5, 2018, the deceased made to go to school after having a belly-filling breakfast at the residence of his grandparent's, but unfortunately did not make it for his daily learning.
He reportedly died on his way to school in Ogolonto, Ikorodu.
“But we didn’t know that was the last time we will see him,” Oyesanya told Vanguard News in tears. She was described as one who hasn't come to terms with the death of the pupil who wore an excited mood before leaving home for his school of learning.
"And on that fateful day, he left home to school. But I was alerted of the incident that happened by someone who told me to find out if Ezekiel was safe. Immediately I started calling his teacher, but she refused to pick my call.
"I thought they were on assembly ground so I called the school director who also didn’t pick my calls. At that moment, I knew there was a problem.
"I was confused and my husband also called to inform me to proceed to his school. On my way, someone told me that Ezekiel had been rushed to Ikorodu General Hospital.
"When I got to the hospital premises, I was told to identify the lifeless body of Ezekiel; at that moment, I knew I had lost our dear child. I couldn’t believe my eyes that the child I fed at exactly 7:15am had become a corpse for me to pick at exactly 9:45am,” she said amidst tears.
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