Elijah Adebero
Entertainment entrepreneur, Obi Cubana, has been jolted into a primary school experience concerning the death of a palm wine tapper.
He was crushed by a truck but the school management ensured the pupils never see the site because blood was too sacred then.
He compares this to the ugly sight of blood from Owo, Ondo State, where gunmen unleashed tragedy on innocent worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church.
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He recalls the 1984 occurrence:
TODAY, IS A VERY SAD DAY TO WRITE.
MY PRAYER IS THAT GOD WILL HEAL OUR NATION, AND RESTORE PEACE ON OUR LAND, AMEN.
MY PRAYER IS THAT SOMEDAY, LIFE WILL START TO HAVE VALUE ONCE MORE, AMEN.
I REMEMBER AS A KID, SOMETIME AROUND 1984, WHILE I WAS IN PRIMARY 4 IN CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL OBA.
AROUND 10AM, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER MORNING ASSEMBLY, THE SCHOOL BELLS RANG AND WE WERE ALL ASSEMBLED AGAIN, AND WERE TOLD THE SCHOOL HAD BEEN SHUT DOWN FOR THE WEEK, AND THAT WE WOULD USE THE BUSH TRACK TO ALL GO HOME.
WE LEARNT LATER THAT A FUEL TANKER CRUSHED A PALMWINE TAPPER ON HIS BICYCLE, ON HIS WAY HOME FROM AFOR OBA MARKET AFTER SELLING HIS PALMWINE.
NOW, THE SCHOOL DIDN’T WANT ANY OF US PUPILS, TO SEE THE ACCIDENT SCENE, SO THEY PROTECTED US FROM SEEING WHAT DEAD BODY LOOKED LIKE.
CAN SAME EVER BE, AGAIN?
GOD HELP US!!!
MAY GOD COMFORT THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS, AND ALL OTHERS THAT MAY HAVE HAD SIMILAR UNFORTUNATE INCIDENTS.
MAY GOD PROTECT US ALL, AMEN “
