NIGERIAN BEMOANS IN LAW’S FATE OVER EARTH QUAKE IN NEPAL

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NIGERIAN BEMOANS IN LAW’S FATE OVER EARTH QUAKE IN NEPAL

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

………………………………………At  least 4,000 people are believed dead

………………………………………….over 6,500 believed injured as at press time.

……………………………………………….Dozen killed in China,Tibet and China

…………………………………………….At least 200 Climbers rescued in and around Mount Everest

……………………………………………Reports of  at least 70 percent houses destroyed ,according to Associated Press.

A Nigerian,Mrs Susan Annette Adeoba,A former Senior Special Adviser to the Lagos state Government on Technical Education  and a member of the Editorial and Policy Board of E.N.M. Paedia Express Multimedia Group is currently in a state of shock over the recent earthquake in the land locked and mountainous nation called Nepal,just north of India.

In an exclusive conversation with this reporter, Mrs Adeoba while thanking God almighty for the safety of her younger sister who was  in that country but left barely two weeks to the unfortunate tragedy said it was still too early for the family to know whether any of her in laws  were involved.

British Born ,Mrs Adeoba who has been married to a Nigerian since 1974 revealed that the nation had been expecting an earthquake for the past 80 years but did not really know when nature will strike.

According to her,she has been to Kathmandu,Nepal in 2006  when her niece got married and she knew very well that the nation was very poor in basic infrastructure.

Adeoba Speaks:”The roads are very narrow, they have just one airport”

“I even recall that there was a problem with an aeroplane on the runway during our trip and it took them at least one week before they could get a crane from neighboring India to pick it up”

“It is a very poor nation indeed and the two main industries are the cottage industries and its tourism sector,my younger sister and her daughter travel there at least three times in  ayear”

“All the ancient temples and the little traces of modernity the nation has is now destroyed completely ,infact the quake also affected people in India,Tibet,China and Bangladesh”

She added that as at press time ,not less than 4,000 people had been declared dead with several more declared missing and homeless.

As  this reporter and Mrs Adeoba watched the live footage of the tragic incident via the CNN it was obvious that incident had really shaken the latter as she kept lamenting the safety of her in laws in Nepal.

Mrs Adeoba who recently went into retirement at Ifako International Schools where she was technical Consultant , also served as the  Permanent Secretary on Technical Education in the Lagos state Ministry of Education before retiring from public service.