…how she died a month to her wedding
I had woken up that morning feeling so indifferent, it has been an interesting but emotional year for me;so many things that had better been left unsaid had transpired. Met Loretta, now deceased that fateful morning at her place of work.
That morning my perspective about life changed; enmeshed in my own thought about the situation of things and I saw two different people in a “world of theirs” and all of a sudden my eyes were laced with tears. It’s actually been a while I had been that emotional and all of a sudden I was full of praise. In the course of gaining my composure back and our gaze met, and she said “Let’s be thankful”. We had obviously shared the same thought.
We got talking almost immediately. “I love the way your brow is carved” she told me and I thanked her’ I added that I am a makeup Artiste and she told me about her upcoming wedding, showed her some of my works and she requested I do her makeup that day, so we exchanged numbers. She sought my idea on the ideal fabrics and colour to use and I gave my opinion. Loretta did something very significant for me that day but I choose to keep that to myself. I would have embarked on another self blame and torture that day but for her.
I sent her a message when I got home and couple of days later we saw. Never knew that was the last.
Loretta, though our encounter was very brisk but it was very significant. I was suppose to call her up about the wedding preparation but felt seeing face to face would be ideal since I will be in that neighborhood. Tuesday, October 4th, I asked about her from her colleague when I couldn’t find her on seat but she couldn’t give a definite answer, so I presumed she wasn’t around; it could be her off day.
The thought to call her still never occur to me, I was contemplating on my next move when I saw a man I had met the same day I met her and I asked from him. And I got the greatest shock, Loretta is no more. In his exact words, “Loretta passed on Saturday, 1st of Oct 2016” and I couldn’t close my mouth. I was like her wedding is next month and he replied Yes! “She got electrocuted by a DSTV cable and she slumped, before she could be rushed to the hospital, she gave up” he added.
I was in shock till I got home.
According to the story, 35 year-old Loretta got electrocuted in her fiance’s abode situated on Ajoke Kazeem Street in Idimu area of Lagos State. Her fiancé, Segun Tolani was fixing an electrical fault when the incident which claimed her life happened. Gathered that Tolani had wanted to change his old cable TV decoder and antenna when the power was restored and he discovered he didn’t have electricity in his house.
He wanted to do fix the light himself but was advised by neighbours to get the service of an electrician, though he did but later decided to rent a ladder in the area because he felt the 2,500 he was charged was rather to high. Tolani was said to have called Loretta who was inside to assist him in holding the ladder. She held the ladder with one hand and held an iron pole beside the room with the other hand. While he was working, the wire fell and touched the pole she was holding and that was how she got electrocuted.
She was said to have been rushed to a private hospital in the area but was rejected before being confirmed dead at the Igando general hospital
Loretta, continue to rest in the bosom of our GOD.
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