 |
| Oluchi Anekwe; source: jide-salu.com |
(Simon Kolawale)--How do you respond to the electrocution of a promising
university undergraduate, a first-class material at that? You can say "it
is God's will" — as it is our custom in Nigeria — or you can say that once
again, another light has been dimmed in clearly avoidable circumstances.
Oluchi Anekwe, a 300-level accounting student of the
University of Lagos, was killed on Tuesday when a naked wire fell on her from
an electric pole. Since there was no natural disaster such as a storm, you get
the sense that the deadly cable had been hanging dangerously for a while. It
was somebody's responsibility, I guess, to maintain those cables. The
"somebody" failed in his duty and there are no consequences. Life
goes on. We await the next electrocution, the next "God's will".
