“He was seeking admission into UNILAG” – Woman whose 20-year-old grandson was crushed to death by neighbour’s water tank reveals
A younger man named Jamal Nureni has met his premature demise after a water tank belonging to a neighbour fell from its stand and crashed into his bedroom.
Nureni, who turned into once most efficient 20-years-primitive, turned into once overwhelmed to demise in his grandmother, Alhaja Yemisi Odejinmi’s home on Alhaji Kazeem Aspect road, Ikotun-Egbe space of Lagos.
It turned into once gathered that Nureni turned into once immediate asleep in his room on Saturday, June 17th, when a tank paunchy of water fell from the neighbor’s compound next to his grandmother’s home. He turned into once rushed to the clinical institution nonetheless turned into once sadly confirmed silly on arrival.
The bereaved grandmother has printed that Nureni turned into once in quest of admission into the College of Lagos to beget a study engineering. She stated she turned into once planning to get a citizenship affirmation letter for her grandson as section of the necessities for processing his admission.
In retaining alongside with her, she turned into once planning to apply him to the palace of a Lagos monarch that Saturday morning to get the letter when the tragedy struck.
Talking to Each day Belief, the grieving grandmother stated,
“It is a ways a fence isolating my home and that of my neighbours. I if fact be told had been dwelling here for over 40 years. Every time they pump water and their tank is paunchy, it spills into my compound. I if fact be told beget talked to them quite a lot of instances, nonetheless they didn’t change and because we’re all from the same town (Abeokuta), I attain to a option to let drag and all the time sweep the water,” she narrated.
“Jamal (Nureni) turned into once in quest of admission to the College of Lagos and he needed evidence of citizenship. He and I were planning to drag to the palace of Oba of Isolo that Saturday morning to get a affirmation letter.
“I turned into once within the lavatory around 6.30am when I heard a loud sound. I by no system knew it turned into once in my room. The tank fell from our neighbour’s compound and crashed into the room where my grandson slept. It overwhelmed his head. He turned into once two decades primitive and had been dwelling with me for approximately three years.”
“His father lives in Canada and I if fact be told beget broken the news to him. He turned into once very sad. We had been receiving rather a couple of company. The owners of the tank had been begging us too.”
