Relatives Of Nyanya Explosion Victims Besiege FCT Hospitals

Relatives of the victims of the deadly Abuja explosion, which claimed scores of lives and left hundreds of people injured, besiege FCT hospitals in search of their beloved.

"What kind of one Nigeria is this?" a middle-aged man, who simply gave his name as Chibuzor asked no one in particular. With his hands on his head and tears flowing freely down his cheeks, he walked through the charred remains of victims of the bomb explosion searching for his elder brother, Paul, whom he said was at the scene on his way to work in Wuse II.
He was inconsolable as he searched through the severed arms, legs and heads of burnt or blood-stained human beings that littered the scene of the blast before the scene was cordoned off by security operatives.
Chibuzor was not alone in his grief.

Hundreds of Abuja residents who could not reach their loved ones after the blast besieged the various hospitals where dead bodies and survivors were taken to.
Security operatives and hospitals managements had a hectic time containing the crowd that kept increasing every minute.
The case was the same at the Karu branch of the Abuja Clinics and the Karu Customs Hospital, the National Hospital, the Wuse General and the Asokoro General Hospital when our correspondents visited.
Desperate family members who were not allowed access to the hospitals were seen peeping through the fence.
A notice at the entrance of the Karu Customs Hospital showed that 14 survivors of the blast were on admission.
The notice signed by the Head of the Medical Corps, Dr. N.G. Nandang, gave their names as Abigail Mulki, Gift Godwin, Umar Rabiu, Alice John, Jimmy Atike, Njoku Victor, Victor Habila and Suleiman Abdullahi.
Others were Idris Ismail, Daniel Sweetwilliams, Umar Rabo, Okpara Samuel, Dorcas Opawole and Idris Jilkereneini Ochai.
While making his way into the hospital ward, one of our correspondents saw relatives bringing out the corpse of one of those on admission.
One of them identified the deceased as Neini from Kogi State.
“He is my brother. His name is Neini. We are from Kogi State. He works in a bank in the town and left home early. We had been unable to reach him until a friend told me he saw his name among those admitted here. But as you can see, we have lost him,” the bereaved man said.
When approached, Nandang, who came out from one of the wards, said he was busy assessing the patients.
He explained that he had already given preliminary reports to the Customs high command and the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who visited the hospital earlier.
At the National Hospital, Mrs. Ojocheneni Ogbadu, feared that her 30-year-old son, Danjuma, must have been caught up in the blast.
Danjuma, who works for a hotel in Jikwoyi left home less than an hour to the time of the bomb blast. “My son left home some minutes ago,” she said to herself. Quickly, she took her phone and called Danjuma.
“The phone rang,” she said. To her chagrin, Danjuma confirmed that he had been caught up in the explosion. Then, Ogbadu rushed to the scene and then to the Nyanya hospital where a doctor was stitching her son’s waist.
“He was wounded in the waist and blood was gushing out,” Ogbadu added.
But the blood overwhelmed the capacity at the hospital which then referred the victim to the National Hospital.
At the National Hospital, Danjuma was admitted, like other victims and from there, the medical team took over.
Ogbadu waited to hear word on her son but to no avail.