I’ve been living in sorrow since my leg got broken –Lagos hairdresser shot by policeman

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After struggling for a few seconds, she got up from the mattress she had lain on idly for hours.

Downcast and pale, she clutched her crutches and limped to the veranda where our correspondent had waited. On each step she took, Hannah Olugbodi would gaze at the bandage wrapped around her leg and shake her head in disbelief. Once bubbling with life and very ambitious, her plans had been left in shreds since a bullet fired by a policeman shattered the lower part of her leg.

“It resulted in an argument and the policemen started shooting. The gunshots caused confusion and people were running helter-skelter. As I wanted to leave where I was buying pepper, a bullet hit me in the leg and that was the last thing I knew until I found myself at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,” she added.

“A man rushed in to tell me that evening that my wife had been shot,” he recalled. “When I got to the scene, her leg had broken. We took her to a private hospital but a doctor referred us to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi. When we got there, the doctors said they did not have blood in their bank.

“We were asked to pay N450,000 before we could go whereas we had no money again. A woman, whose mother was also a patient in my ward, called a senior police officer in Abuja. The officer contacted the hospital to discharge us. “I always paid my children school fees on resumption but since this problem started, I have not been able to pay. The school is giving me the grace of allowing them to be in class based on my past record of prompt payment.”

 

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you see these police people they are something else. In fact if we talk about their attitudes it won't even end next year. God!

sorrow won't help. Console urself by thinking of how to survive under the current circumstances. Life must go on

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