It was a tragic end for an apprentice electrician in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Mr Bola Ige. He fell off an electric pole after he was electrocuted while trying to rectify an electrical fault.
Daily Sun learnt that Ige’s boss was contacted for a repair work. The deceased volunteered to assist his boss at House number 10, behind Oba Tejuosho’s house, in the Government Reservation Area, Ibara, Abeokuta. His boss, Sina, denied sending Ige to climb electric pole but, “to identify and rectify only minor faults in his customer’s residence.”
He said he only sent him to fix minor electrical faults in his customer’s residence when he was called upon for an electrical fault in the house: “The person who lives in that compound is my customer. I have been fixing his engineering works for long.”
Wailing, Sina said: “It is sad and very painful to hear that my boy died after climbing a pole to carry out a repair work. I did not send him to climb the pole through which he later died. It is a sad thing.”
Sympathizers including the deceased’s mother wept like babies as Ige bled and foamed from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. His body was eventually removed by the police who arrived the scene from the state Rapid Response Squad in a pick – up van with registration number PF 5385OG Toyota Hilux.
Ige’s mother who openly wept as she watched the lifeless body of her son refused to be consoled: “I am finished, my hope is dashed. I never dreamt or prayed that I would bury a child in my life. This is a terrible blow on me and my family. I will nurse this big wound till the rest of my life.”
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