A woman Loretta Ewere was electrocuted in Lagos on Saturday at her husband-to-be’s house in Ajoke Kazeem Street in the Idimu area of Lagos ...
A woman Loretta Ewere was electrocuted in Lagos on Saturday at her husband-to-be’s house in Ajoke Kazeem Street in the Idimu area of Lagos State.
Segun Tolani, her fiancee is said to have refused to pay an electrician for a service, doing it himself instead.
A neighbor of the house narrated to a Punch correspondence how the sad event happened.
“The man had wanted to change his old cable TV decoder and antenna. When power was restored, he discovered that he didn’t have electricity in his house.
“He wanted to do it himself, but neighbours advised him to get the service of an electrician. He contacted an electrician who billed him N2,500. But he said the charge was too high. He decided to go and rent a wooden ladder from someone in the area.
“He mounted the ladder on the wall and called the lady from inside the room to assist him in holding the ladder. She held the ladder with one hand and held an iron pole beside the room with the other hand.
“While he was working, the wire fell and touched the pole she was holding and that was how she was electrocuted.”
“The woman fell down and hit her head against the concrete floor. People tried to resuscitate her by giving her milk; but she didn’t come round. A lot of time had been wasted. She was rushed to a private hospital in the area, but she was rejected.
“We took her to the general hospital, where she was confirmed dead. Her corpse was deposited in a mortuary,” another resident added.
Loretta’s relative however blamed Segun for her death. “They did their introduction four years ago and since then, they had been staying together. Their marriage was slated for November and the two families have bought clothes and sent invitation to people,” he said
“Around 1pm of the day that she died, she called one of her friends that she would be going to shop for the wedding, not knowing that she would die that day.
“It was the man’s stinginess that killed her. If he had paid someone to fix the electrical fault, this would not have happened.”
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