Ori Facebook ni mo ti ri atejade yii to n so nipa isele kan to sele ni ilu Port Harcourt lonii. Eni isele naa soju ẹ lo n royin, ohun ti omokunrin naa wi ni yii:
Nigeria is such a dangerous place to live in. This guy just died right in front of my eyes here at Choba, Port Harcourt!
I was on my way to my Sunday evening web programming class when this
happened. As I stepped out from the cab, a car drove past me on high
speed, on reverse. If I had stepped out from the right door, it would
have been a different story for me. The Sienna vehicle on high reverse
was determined to escape from whatever was chasing it. I stood there,
wondering what could be responsible for such reckless lawlessness.
It maneuvered past the first car, missed the second, and was about to
make a straight run when it hit a bike behind it. The bike was on its
right lane and was on speed. The collision created an explosion and in
few seconds I was dumbfounded by the effect. I quickly ran my eyes
across the road to find water or something that could serve as an
extinguisher, I found a bucket of water across a vulcanizer’s shop, I
ran, grabbed it and straight to the bike, I poured it all. It made no
difference, other people did the same thing, some poured sand and sachet
water. The fire from the fuel tank increased. For a moment, I knew this
was serious, the guy did not move. In such a short time, he was
completely paralyzed and burnt, he bled seriously from the head. He was
helpless and dying. He died.
For a while, I was brainstorming, do
I have an emergency number on my phone, ambulance, Police, medics? No.
What about the other people around me? No either. For the next thirty
minutes and even more (before I left), we all just gathered and stared,
helplessly. The guy was gone.
That dead guy could have been anybody else. Innocent, but yet caught up in web of reckless lawlessness.
What really happened in the first place? From what I heard, the Sienna
car was loading on the road (which was wrong), a police van approached
it, it tried to escape, in the process of escaping, it killed this guy.
That dead guy could have been anybody else. Innocent, but yet caught up in web of reckless lawlessness.
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