The incident happened around 12pm while activities in the school were still on. The Principal of the school, Mr. O.O. Oshiname, said he was having a meeting in his office when a heavy rain started. He said, “The incident happened last week Wednesday. I was in my office with the executive of the Parent-Teacher Association. We were having a meeting.
“While the meeting was on, it began to rain heavily around 11.30am. About 45 minutes after the rain, it began to drizzle. “Suddenly, a thunderbolt hit and it was so strong that it threw me off balance. The school generator was on, but after the thunderbolt, I asked one of the teachers to turn off the generator.”
He said the teacher, on getting outside saw the five victims, who were under a shade in the food vendors’ corner, on the floor. The teacher was said to have raised the alarm. The principal told our correspondent that he went out along with other people in the meeting and saw that the people were lying unconscious on the floor. “They were all unconscious. It was a pathetic sight,” he added.
However, an hour after the incident, our correspondent learnt that the victims began to regain consciousness one by one, but the fruit vendor, Mrs. Felicia Fagbayi, 50, did not wake up. Some Sango (god of thunder) worshippers were invited to the scene of the incident by the people of the community.
The devotees, after making some consultations, were said to have set up a shrine around the site where the victim died.
They demanded the payment of N500,000. “The community called in the Sango worshippers and they asked for N500,000. They set up a shrine and forbade people from moving near the place. Their leader said he would need to call his superior. When he came, he gave the community a long list of materials for rituals. “The school management ordered the pupils to go home until further notice to avoid further tragedy.”
The corpse was not evacuated from the scene until 7pm on Thursday, more than 24 hours after the woman died.
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