{"id":1705,"date":"2016-09-20T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:54:27","slug":"my-aunts-landlady-and-the-ikeja-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/my-aunts-landlady-and-the-ikeja-bomb-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ikeja Bomb Blast and Real Estate Business in Oke-Afa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is mixed with pain and laughter. The truth is, I don\u2019t know what disposition to have towards it. I sympathize with those who lost their loved ones in the 2002 Ikeja<\/a> bomb blast. Over one thousand people perished in the Oke-Afa<\/a> canal concealed by water hyacinth while attempting to escape the uncertain calamity. Worse still, till date, a lot of bodies remain undiscovered.<\/p>\n

The memory of the event lingers in my brain. I get the flashback of this incident that occurred when I was in Primary 5 as if it happened yesterday. I can still remember praying with some of my friends, to ask for God\u2019s mercy because I thought the end of the world which I have always heard of has come. I can remember the kind of fear, the pain, and confusion that I saw on everyone\u2019s face that day.<\/p>\n

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\u00a014 years after, I can\u2019t just forget what my aunt\u2019s landlady did on the day of the bomb blast. As stated earlier, over a thousand people died in the bomb blast. My aunt stays at Ilamose Estate, Jakande Isolo<\/a>, which is very close to Oke-Afa. Her husband had gone out and she was at home alone with her Landlady and her newborn baby.<\/div>\n

In the midst of the turbulence, there was so much urgency upon her to leave the house. This is the same way most of the people that were drowned flee for the fear of the unknown. My aunt, who just christened her second child saddled with the same kind of fear.<\/p>\n

Her Landlady was not moved, she was just going about her normal routine. Interestingly, the woman went inside her three bedroom flat,<\/a>\u00a0brought out a big bowl of eba, and started eating. She told my aunt that if she was going to die that death should at least meet the food in her tummy. She was relaxed, resting her back on the chair as she joyfully eats her eba.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0After two hours, Mama Lugho as she is fondly called decided to leave the house. This time, the foundation of the house which was seriously shaking had stopped shaking. The crisis has reduced. She called her driver, who came to take her, my aunt, and the new baby to a safer place at Isolo.<\/div>\n

I have learned a lot from this woman’s disposition to things. The fact that most people were in terror has made them meet with their untimely death. Today, Mama Lugho is late, but she died a peaceful death, as she anticipated. Anytime I remember the Ikeja<\/a> bomb blast, I can\u2019t help but remember \u201cMama Lugho\u201d. Her memory lingers on. The Ikeja bomb blast has long been forgotten and real Estate in Oke-Afa is now considered as good business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story is mixed with pain and laughter. The truth is, I don\u2019t know what disposition to have…\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[263,262,267,265,266,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-1705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-house-stories","8":"tag-housing-in-lagos","9":"tag-ikeja-bomb-blast","10":"tag-jakande-estate-isolo","11":"tag-lagos-landlady","12":"tag-lagos-newborn","13":"tag-oke-afa","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10942,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/10942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}