LagosToday! Tragedy As Nursing Mother Is Electrocuted In Lagos, Baby Survives

Yewande Busari, 24, was on  May 6, 2016, electrocuted by electrical wires sticking out of a streetlight pole on the Oshodi highway in Lagos, while trying to cross the road with her one-year-old son, Pamilerin, strapped to her back. Sources said she had not used the pedestrian bridge.

Pamilerin, however, survived. The streetlight pole was said to have had the live wires sticking for a while but was left unattended to. Yewande's elder brother, Tunde Busari, lamented the nonchalance of the government and the electrical company in charge of the streetlights.
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.His words: “We have not heard anything from the government or seen anybody from them since my sister died. It was a government property that killed my sister, but nobody has come to pay us a visit.” Until her death, Yewande lived with her fiance at number 32 Thomas Street, Ebute-Meta, Lagos.




The streetlight pole that caused the tragedy was said to have carried the menace of live wires sticking for a while but was left unattended by the government and the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company in charge of it.  In a phone conversation with our reporter, Tunde Busari, an elder brother of the deceased, lamented the nonchalance of the government and the electrical company in charge of the streetlights. “We have not heard anything from the government or seen anybody from them since my sister died. It was a government property that killed my sister, but nobody has come to pay us a visit,” he said of the indifference that has marked the response of the government and the electricity company in charge of the streetlights.

According to Yewande’s Facebook page, she graduated from Eko Akete Grammar school in Lagos Island. Until her death, she lived with her fiance at number 32 Thomas Street, Ebute-Meta, Lagos