Unknown
to many, the deceased mother of one-month-old baby, who survived the bomb blast
in the Kuje area of the Federal Capital Territory, Ifeoluwa, had insisted that
her baby must wear pink clothes on her birthday scheduled for October 22.
Her
Kwara State-born father, Samuel Abolarin, stated this during an interview with
our correspondent on Monday, at the trauma centre of the National Hospital,
Abuja.
“I
lost my wife. I lost my mother-in-law and I lost my brother-in-law. My
sister-in-law is at the Emergency Unit of this trauma centre”, he stated.
He
said, “Our marriage is just a year old. She gave me Ifeoluwa and protected her
by sacrificing her own life. I was at home on Airport Road when the incident
occurred. On Wednesday, my wife had come to meet me in my office in the
Ministry of Finance because I was supposed to submit an industrial training
letter on her behalf. She had just finished her National Diploma in Marketing
from the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa.
“She
brought the letter on Wednesday and decided to visit her parents since the next
day was a public holiday in commemoration of the nation’s 55 independence
anniversary. She promised to come back on Saturday. She left and went to her
parents’ house in Kuje. On Friday, as they were walking on the roadside, a bomb
went off killing my wife, her mother and her brother. My sister-in-law was
seriously wounded and, till now, she doesn’t know what happened.
“I
never believed that something like this was going to happen. We were busy
preparing for my daughter’s birthday that will be coming up on October 22. That
was our plan and my wife was telling me our daughter must put on pink clothes,
without which, there would be no birthday.
“I
know that my God will still take us forward. He has started it, I never planned
for this and God knows the best.”
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