Fashola is at one corner trying to make okada riders extinct in Lagos to the detriment of the masses that depend on them for transportation and source of income, and now PHCN faulty cable is at another corner killing okada rider. Is the faulty high tension cable an agent of Gov Fashola?
Saturday evening was a cool evening for me but one man
suspected to be an okada rider wasn’t so lucky as he was electrocuted to death in
Ejigbo, Lagos State.
The deceased, identified as Oche Samuel, was said to have
met his death at the shop of a motorcycle mechanic in the area. It was learnt
that the deceased had taken his bike for repairs before the sad incident.
An eyewitness, who identified himself only as Kayode,
said as Samuel entered into the shop, a Power Holding Company of Nigeria high
tension cable sparked and fell on Ailegun Road, off Ronik College. Kayode said
when the incident happened, tension was heightened in the area, resulting in
residents running helter-skelter.
He said in the ensuing confusion, Samuel marched on some
of the fallen cables and he was electrocuted. The eyewitness said fear of being
electrocuted prevented sympathisers from giving Samuel first aid. He said by
the time an official of the PHCN arrived the scene for on-the-spot assessment,
Samuel had died.
Kayode said it was through the deceased’s mobile phone
they were able to get his brother. He said when the deceased’s brother came, he
took the corpse to the mortuary. As of 8.30pm on Saturday, the fire on the pole
was still not put out.
Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Police Command,
Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the incident, told our correspondent on the phone
on Sunday that the deceased was an okada rider, who went to repair his motorcycle
when the incident occurred.
“The man, an okada rider went to a mechanic workshop to
repair his motorcycle. It was during the time that the electric pole started to
spark. In the process, he was electrocuted. His corpse has been deposited at
the morgue of General Hospital, Isolo,” she said.
PHCN is grossly ineffective and inefficient in supplying
power to the teeming users but they just have enough on their faulty high tension cables to kill unsuspecting citizens. May his soul rest in peace.
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