Miracles are still happening!
Twenty-one-year-old Adora Ugwu is planning to be a soldier. She also
wants to secure admission into one of the country’s tertiary
institutions. She had put her hands on the plough of her latter dream by
writing the last UMTE.
But, as she was going for the other one,
she died. Two days after the lady wrote the examination, she was
heading for her home state of Enugu for the recruitment into the
Nigerian Army when the vehicle she was travelling had a head-on
collision with a similar minibus.
The result: her death and that of 25 others who included four discharged members of batch B National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Twenty of them including Adora
reportedly died on the spot in headon collision involving two 15
passengers’ capacity buses, each, belonging separately to Peace Mass
Transit Limited and the Enugu State Transport Company (ENTRACO). The
buses had registration number BENUE – XB 504 TKP, ENUGU – XL 812 UWN
respectively.
The ghastly crash occurred along Enugu-
Markudi express road, at Amoka in Udi, Enugu State on June 20th.
Immediately after the crash which was promptly reported to the Enugu
State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) by its Delta State
Sector Commander Lukas Ikpi who met the accident while travelling on
the road, the dead including Adora were evacuated to Our Saviour
Hospital morgue at 9th mile. But she was not meant to stay among the
dead for long.
Two days after she had been confined to
the mortuary. The parents had wept and mourned, most of them especially
the mother was devastated, but the dead must be buried. And this was
what Adora’s relative intended doing: bury her two day-old corpse. At
the morgue, the attendants were putting in place all the deeds of
mortification when suddenly there was a sound; a sneeze, it was. They
looked around, then another one! Behold, the body being prepared for
claim by the relatives had just sneezed.
The dead don’t sneeze, they reasoned.
Adora, whose body was being prepared, is not dead after all. When
Saturday Mirror asked her what she felt on her first realization of
consciousness, she said: “I thought we were all sleeping. When I asked
people around where I was, she said they said I had an accident.
“I cannot remember anything that
happened when I was at the mortuary.” When Adora was discovered to be
alive, her relative who had come to identify her was immediately called
phoned the others from the morgue. Tears turned to felicitation. From
the morgue she was later transferred to the Federal Orthopaedic Hospital
in Enugu where is currently receiving treatment and spoke with Saturday
Mirror.
Adora, told Saturday Mirror that she
hails from Enugu state. She said she attended a secondary school in
North-Bank Markudi, Benue State adding that she was in Benue to take her
JAMB after which she was travelling down to Enugu for army recruitment
when the accident occurred.
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