A beautiful lady set to
wed on the 4th of November died in a car crash in Osun state while travelling
from Abuja to Lagos.
29-year-old Mercy
Ndidiamaka Onwuka was one of the 4 passengers who died when a Young Shall Grow
bus somersaulted multiple times on the expressway. According to a family member
of Mercy, a youth corp member in the bus died on the spot while three others
died later. His sister, sadly, was one of them.
An elder brother to the
deceased told LIB that Mercy was taken to the Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife
following the accident on the afternoon of September 6, but doctors were on
strike and, as a result, his sister was not given adequate care. She suffered
internal bleeding and died early on Thursday, September 7, at about 3:00 a.m.
She was buried on Sunday, September 10th in Amainyi-Ukwu LGA, Ihitte Uboma, Imo
state.
The deceased's brother,
Charles Onwuka, said he was extremely shocked when he received a call on the
fateful day to learn that his sister was involved in an accident. He said one
of the first responders found the phone number of one of their Abuja relatives
written on a paper in her bag and called. The relative in Abuja went to the
Young Shall Grow office in Abuja to make enquiries while he went to the
transport company's office in Maza Maza, Lagos. He said he was told to meet
with the General Manager who in turn referred him to Ibadan to meet with their
representative there to take care of everything.
Mr Onwuka accused the
driver of the ill-fated bus of being responsible for the accident by driving
recklessly. He said he got to speak with one of the survivors who told him that
the driver had been overspeeding for most of the journey and was trying to
overtake a car when an oncoming vehicle caused him to suddenly apply his brakes
and the bus took a tumble. The driver survived.
He also accused the
transport company of neglect towards the family of the victims. He admitted
that The Young Shall Grow Motors paid for the embalmment of his sister's body
and also for the ambulance that transported her to Imo State but said he
expected more from them. He said he was given the phone numbers of the General
Manager and the Accident Manager of The Young Shall Grow Motors and was asked
to contact them after the burial for further compensation but when he called
the general manager, he said he travelled and asked to be called on a later
date. He hasn't heard from both the accident manager and the general manager
since then.
"No concern, No
commiserate (sic) they are just non-challent about it. Other surviving
passengers are also left to their faith," he said of the transport
company.
He added that his aged
parents have been inconsolable and had to go from planning a wedding to
planning a funeral.
LIB has tried reaching
out to both the general manager and accident manager of the transport company
but both are not reachable.
Meanwhile, friends of
Mercy took to Facebook to express their shock at the sudden death when plans
for her wedding were underway.
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