follow up: UNILAG Medical Centre refused to attend to my sister.
Nkem Anekwe, the elder sister of Oluchi
Anekwe, a first-class student of the University of Lagos, who was on
Tuesday electrocuted by a high-tension wire, says the negligence of the
UNILAG Medical Center caused the death of her younger sister.
She also said the high-tension wire,
which caused the death of Oluchi also fell on her younger sister, Uju
Anekwe, but she survived the encounter.
This is just as the National Association
of Nigerian Students, South-West zone, said it would sue the electricity
distribution company for the death.
Nkem told our correspondent that Uju, a
student of the College of Medicine, Idi Araba, was injured by the cable
and was also hospitalised. She added that the young lady had been
discharged and was recuperating at home.
PUNCH Metro had reported that
academic activities at the university were paralysed on Wednesday as
students of the institution protested against the death of Oluchi, a
300-Level student of the Department of Accounting.
Twenty-two-year-old Oluchi and her sister
were returning from an evening Mass, when the high-tension wire fell on
them at about 7pm.
When PUNCH Metro visited the
Anekwes’ on Thursday, Nkem, a lawyer, stated that both ladies were
initially rushed alive to the medical centre, adding that Oluchi could
have survived if she was promptly attended to.
She
said, “It was not only Oluchi that the wire fell on; it also injured
Uju. I got to know about the incident at about 8pm. I quickly rushed to
the university’s medical centre. When I got there, Uju told me that she
and Oluchi had held each other’s hands as they walked to the hostel.
“The wire fell on Oluchi’s left arm, and
the two of them were electrocuted. Oluchi lost consciousness
immediately, while Uju managed to call out to passersby to help them.
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