To Mr Idowu Bamgboye Ezekiel, a- 62 year-old pensioner in the employ of Ogun State in the Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999, life after service seems to be cruel.
The ill-wind blew and almost scattered his life . And to worsen his condition, his wife and five year-old daughter were almost killed in a mysterious fire that chopped off the daughter’s two legs and part of his wife arm. This unfortunate incident, according to Bamgboye, occurred after his first wife eloped with his first son.
His appearance at the NUJ Secretariat, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Wednesday caught the people’s attention when he demanded an audience with journalists.
When Bamgbose displayed the picture of his amputated daughter, it was like a movie.
The tragedy hit the girl, identified as Mofolorunso Omotomiwa, and mother, Shakira, on February 11, 2011, she was crippled by a mysterious fire which also burnt his wife Shakirat Ezekiel’s arm.
Consequent upon the incident, Bamgbose said was advised by his family members to send Shakirat away but he refused.
According to him, his first marriage was contracted in 1989 and produced a son named Emmanuel but,his first wife, identified as Sherifat Omonusi, bolted away with boy due to his financial incapability.
He later got married to Shakirat 17 years after. The union, according to him, produced the only girl child who has been now crippled by the mysterious fire.
Bamgboye was a messenger with Ogun State Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999 when he retired and later joined a private security outfit where he collects N11,000 monthly as salary.
He gave a vivid account of how the tragedy struck his family and submitted that unless public spirited individuals, especially Governor Ibikunle Amosun come to his rescue, his life that seems to have been scattered by the mysterious inferno might not be put together till he dies.
Bamgboye, who lives at Osu-Egungunla compound in Ake, Abeokuta, accused his neighbours of nursing hatred against his wife, who, according to him, was suffering from epilepsy before he decided to marry her out of pity.
The neighbours, he said, stopped his wife from cooking in the kitchen and at the passage which prompted her to be cooking in their one room apartment.
The old-man said that if not for the insistence of the neighbours that made his wife to cook in the room on that fateful day, the tragedy would not have occurred to his wife and daughter.
He narrated: “On February 11, 2011, I was on night duty that day as a security officer. I got a call from one of my neighbours who alerted me that my room had been gutted by fire.
“I was told that the incidence occurred as a result of an explosion which occurred following the spill of kerosene after my wife fell down near the stove which has already been lit.
“According to the person that explained to me, the explosion trapped my wife’s arm but was rescued while my daughter was not lucky.
“He said that when they wanted to rescue my daughter from the burning fire, my daughter fell on a melting plastic bowl which affected her two legs.
“They quickly rushed her to the hospital but all to no avail as the doctors said they had no choice but to amputate her two legs .
“We were also told that, we should wait until her two thighs shoot up before they could carry out a surgery on her.
“They took both of them (mother and daughter) to the State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta and one Adisa Thompson gave them N5,000”.
When asked what he wanted the state governor to do for his family, Bamgboye said: “I have spent a lot on this child and I am still spending. I want the government of Ogun State and the people to help me with money because I have been instructed not to give the girl certain foods and that I should bring her back for regular check-ups and that I would need to still bring her back to the hospital for the surgery to be carried out on her when her thighs have developed. I will need up to N1 million”.
He however disclosed that Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs had been written on the matter but yet to get a reply. Bamgboye also claimed that he had attempted to get access to Governor Amosun but was unsuccessful.
To Mr Idowu Bamgboye Ezekiel, a- 62 year-old pensioner in the employ of Ogun State in the Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999, life after service seems to be cruel.
The ill-wind blew and almost scattered his life . And to worsen his condition, his wife and five year-old daughter were almost killed in a mysterious fire that chopped off the daughter’s two legs and part of his wife arm. This unfortunate incident, according to Bamgboye, occurred after his first wife eloped with his first son.
His appearance at the NUJ Secretariat, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Wednesday caught the people’s attention when he demanded an audience with journalists.
When Bamgbose displayed the picture of his amputated daughter, it was like a movie.
The tragedy hit the girl, identified as Mofolorunso Omotomiwa, and mother, Shakira, on February 11, 2011, she was crippled by a mysterious fire which also burnt his wife Shakirat Ezekiel’s arm.
Consequent upon the incident, Bamgbose said was advised by his family members to send Shakirat away but he refused.
According to him, his first marriage was contracted in 1989 and produced a son named Emmanuel but,his first wife, identified as Sherifat Omonusi, bolted away with boy due to his financial incapability.
He later got married to Shakirat 17 years after. The union, according to him, produced the only girl child who has been now crippled by the mysterious fire.
Bamgboye was a messenger with Ogun State Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999 when he retired and later joined a private security outfit where he collects N11,000 monthly as salary.
He gave a vivid account of how the tragedy struck his family and submitted that unless public spirited individuals, especially Governor Ibikunle Amosun come to his rescue, his life that seems to have been scattered by the mysterious inferno might not be put together till he dies.
Bamgboye, who lives at Osu-Egungunla compound in Ake, Abeokuta, accused his neighbours of nursing hatred against his wife, who, according to him, was suffering from epilepsy before he decided to marry her out of pity.
The neighbours, he said, stopped his wife from cooking in the kitchen and at the passage which prompted her to be cooking in their one room apartment.
The old-man said that if not for the insistence of the neighbours that made his wife to cook in the room on that fateful day, the tragedy would not have occurred to his wife and daughter.
He narrated: “On February 11, 2011, I was on night duty that day as a security officer. I got a call from one of my neighbours who alerted me that my room had been gutted by fire.
“I was told that the incidence occurred as a result of an explosion which occurred following the spill of kerosene after my wife fell down near the stove which has already been lit.
“According to the person that explained to me, the explosion trapped my wife’s arm but was rescued while my daughter was not lucky.
“He said that when they wanted to rescue my daughter from the burning fire, my daughter fell on a melting plastic bowl which affected her two legs.
“They quickly rushed her to the hospital but all to no avail as the doctors said they had no choice but to amputate her two legs .
“We were also told that, we should wait until her two thighs shoot up before they could carry out a surgery on her.
“They took both of them (mother and daughter) to the State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta and one Adisa Thompson gave them N5,000”.
When asked what he wanted the state governor to do for his family, Bamgboye said: “I have spent a lot on this child and I am still spending. I want the government of Ogun State and the people to help me with money because I have been instructed not to give the girl certain foods and that I should bring her back for regular check-ups and that I would need to still bring her back to the hospital for the surgery to be carried out on her when her thighs have developed. I will need up to N1 million”.
He however disclosed that Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs had been written on the matter but yet to get a reply. Bamgboye also claimed that he had attempted to get access to Governor Amosun but was unsuccessful.
To Mr Idowu Bamgboye Ezekiel, a- 62 year-old pensioner in the employ of Ogun State in the Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999, life after service seems to be cruel.
The ill-wind blew and almost scattered his life . And to worsen his condition, his wife and five year-old daughter were almost killed in a mysterious fire that chopped off the daughter’s two legs and part of his wife arm. This unfortunate incident, according to Bamgboye, occurred after his first wife eloped with his first son.
His appearance at the NUJ Secretariat, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Wednesday caught the people’s attention when he demanded an audience with journalists.
When Bamgbose displayed the picture of his amputated daughter, it was like a movie.
The tragedy hit the girl, identified as Mofolorunso Omotomiwa, and mother, Shakira, on February 11, 2011, she was crippled by a mysterious fire which also burnt his wife Shakirat Ezekiel’s arm.
Consequent upon the incident, Bamgbose said was advised by his family members to send Shakirat away but he refused.
According to him, his first marriage was contracted in 1989 and produced a son named Emmanuel but,his first wife, identified as Sherifat Omonusi, bolted away with boy due to his financial incapability.
He later got married to Shakirat 17 years after. The union, according to him, produced the only girl child who has been now crippled by the mysterious fire.
Bamgboye was a messenger with Ogun State Ministry of Finance between 1975 and 1999 when he retired and later joined a private security outfit where he collects N11,000 monthly as salary.
He gave a vivid account of how the tragedy struck his family and submitted that unless public spirited individuals, especially Governor Ibikunle Amosun come to his rescue, his life that seems to have been scattered by the mysterious inferno might not be put together till he dies.
Bamgboye, who lives at Osu-Egungunla compound in Ake, Abeokuta, accused his neighbours of nursing hatred against his wife, who, according to him, was suffering from epilepsy before he decided to marry her out of pity.
The old-man said that if not for the insistence of the neighbours that made his wife to cook in the room on that fateful day, the tragedy would not have occurred to his wife and daughter.
He narrated: “On February 11, 2011, I was on night duty that day as a security officer. I got a call from one of my neighbours who alerted me that my room had been gutted by fire.
“I was told that the incidence occurred as a result of an explosion which occurred following the spill of kerosene after my wife fell down near the stove which has already been lit.
“According to the person that explained to me, the explosion trapped my wife’s arm but was rescued while my daughter was not lucky.
“He said that when they wanted to rescue my daughter from the burning fire, my daughter fell on a melting plastic bowl which affected her two legs.
“They quickly rushed her to the hospital but all to no avail as the doctors said they had no choice but to amputate her two legs .
“We were also told that, we should wait until her two thighs shoot up before they could carry out a surgery on her.
“They took both of them (mother and daughter) to the State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta and one Adisa Thompson gave them N5,000”.
When asked what he wanted the state governor to do for his family, Bamgboye said: “I have spent a lot on this child and I am still spending. I want the government of Ogun State and the people to help me with money because I have been instructed not to give the girl certain foods and that I should bring her back for regular check-ups and that I would need to still bring her back to the hospital for the surgery to be carried out on her when her thighs have developed. I will need up to N1 million”.
He however disclosed that Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs had been written on the matter but yet to get a reply. Bamgboye also claimed that he had attempted to get access to Governor Amosun but was unsuccessful.
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