When
there was outage last Monday around 9.20pm at 15, Olusegun Close,
Alaguntan, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, a freight forwarder, Kolawole Olaseinde,
and his family chose to leave their apartment and enjoy the breeze
before going to bed.
That decision was a wise one and the family members felt that was why they could live to tell the story.
Not long when they went outside, the
Power Holding Company of Nigeria restored power but with a high voltage
resulting in the burning of their two-room apartment.
Olaseinde told PUNCH Metro that within a space of 45 minutes, the entire apartment had been razed.
He said not even a pin could be salvaged as all they laboured for all the years were consumed in the twinkling of an eye.
He said if not for the neighbours and sympathisers, the entire two-storey building would have been gutted.
He said he lost close to a million naira to the inferno.
Olaseinde said, “What can I say?
Everything I have laboured for all these years have been destroyed. I am
grateful to God my family and I are alive. In fact, I do not know where
to start from.
“All our wardrobes are gone. My children now depend on neighbours to wear clothes.”
He said he and his family had been
living with his friends, saying that he was more saddened by the trauma
the incident caused his pregnant wife.
He appealed for aid from philanthropic individuals and government to enable him to pick the pieces of his life.
He urged PHCN to always ensure stabilised power to avoid incident of that nature.
