Narrating her horrible
experience, the woman whose husband is also late said on the fateful day, her
only child, Joel Olukayode, a graduate of Federal University of Technology,
Minna was to resume his first temporary job in Abuja town. She said " on
the fateful morning, we had our morning devotion and I asked my Son to take at
least a cup of tea, but he said he was okay, and I gave him my blessing. After
10-15 minutes that he left, the blast went off. I went outside to check if he
was still there, but I didn't see him, so I quickly ran to the park, and on
getting there, I saw my Son on the ground, dead. That was the last thing I could remember. He
was my only child, and I guess, I died momentarily with
him and I died the second time, but God says, there is still time."
Also narrating how they have been
coping with the trauma of the blast, Mr. Balogun, brother to the bereaved woman
said it was not easy going from one Mortuary to the other, checking all dead
bodies of the victims of the blast before they could identify the body of the
late Juel Olukayode, a 29 year old graduate of Chemical Engineering. He said
"When she fainted, the body was taken away. So, when she was revived, we
had to go to almost all hospitals in Abuja where bodies were deposited, looking
for Joel's body, before we finally got it. The trauma of looking at almost all
dead bodies deposited in various hospitals can better be imagined."
Balogun said.
Please, this woman and many
others need help. Well-meaning Nigerians
and the government are to join this campaign.
Written by Adoyi Ali
