Pregnant Lady Who Scaled Fence To Escape Fire Outbreak In Lagos, Gives Birth

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Abule Egba pipeline fire outbreak has been trail with lament and
distress which left the entire Awori area of Lagos awake all night on
Tuesday and rendered many people homeless.

Scores of houses
including duplexes, storey buildings and bungalows, which had served as
homes to many families and offices for businesses outfits were burnt to
ashes, leaving the owners with memories of the good past. Families have
disintegrated on account of the fire incident as they are split between
neighbours and distant family members who now have to bear the task of
accommodating the victims.

Sike Lukmon, one of the victims of the
night fire, was a pathetic sight. Although she was heavily pregnant,
she had to struggle against death on that night.

Sike, who was
delivered of a baby two days after the incident, said without money and
all their property destroyed, she could not afford delivery at a
hospital, hence she delivered her baby in the corner of a burnt building
where they are now squatting.

According to her, the only way left for them to escape the fire was to jump over the fence.

She
said: “There was noise everywhere and we didn’t even know which
direction to run to. There was fire in the other compound, across the
road and everywhere. I climbed the fence and fell down three times
before I finally succeeded.”

Sike is a petty trader who,
according to her, managed to save some money to buy some things in
readiness for her expected baby, but everything she bought went with the
fire. Her goods too were burnt to ashes.

But she held unto her
new baby and gave thanks to God as people came to see the miraculous
baby delivered without the aid of a midwife. Women from a nearby church
were said to have come to her aid at the point delivering the child.

All
over the Oko Oba, Abule Egba, the entire back of Tantalizer to Wema
bank, the story remains similar, the tears have not stopped flowing. The
pains are still fresh and the losses are traumatic memories that haunt
the residents that are still hanging around their burnt homes and those
that have fled the area in search of succor somewhere else.

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