Chiemelie Ezeobi and Sunday Ehigiator who for three days covered the rescue operations at the collapsed three-storey building in Lagos, write that poor crowd control management, lack of willpower on part of government and lackadaisical attitude of landlords of the structurally-defective houses are to be blamed for the disaster
What do you tell a mother who had just lost her 10-year-old son? How do you remain stoic as a man who lost his brilliant six-year-old son breaks down? How do you assuage the guilt of a couple who scrapped to gather their children’s school fees only for them to end up dead in school? How do you look the families that recorded 20 casualties in the face and assure them that all will be well?
An impossible task you might say but these were the burning questions while talking to the bereaved parents of the school pupils and other families who died last week Wednesday, March 13, after a three-storey residential building located at…
