How I escaped being killed –THISDAY reporter

Posted by admin Latest Politics Friday, April 27th, 2012

When Senator Iroegbu, a reporter with ThisDay Newspapers, Abuja, left his house yesterday morning for the office at Jabi, Abuja, the least he had on his mind was bomb blast even though he has been reporting bombing incidents.
However, his wife had a premonition that something bad was going to happen and tried to prevent her husband from going out that early.

She even put up a quarrel to discourage him from going out but that did not deter him as he left the house angry. Because of the quarrel, she refused to join him in the car and in his anger, he entered the car and drove all alone without his wife, which was unusual.

On getting to the office, he drove in, parked his car only to discover that he had a flat tyre. Not knowing what to do, he called a vulcanizer outside the gate to help him out. But instead of driving his car to where the vulcanizer was, he decided that the vulcanizer come into the premises to work on the tyre while he kept himself busy with his laptop.

As the work progressed, Iroegbu decided to go into the office to pick his newspaper copy for the day and at the same time say hello to other colleagues. After exchanging pleasantries with his colleagues, he decided to settle down and read the paper and just when he was beginning to concentrate, he heard a big bang and before he knew what was happening, the effect from the blast, threw him off his seat and he found himself under the table. Smoke, dust and darkness soon engulfed everywhere, with people shouting for help.

When he finally gathered strength, he managed to come out from under the table and found his way to the door and out of the building. Senator, who narrated his ordeal of the bomb blast to Daily Sun who caught up with him at Kings Care hospital located at Wuse, Zone 4, Abuja, where he rushed to get medical attention, told of how he came to realise that their office had been bombed after he sucessfully got out of the building.

He said on getting out, he headed straight to where his car was parked, opened it, entered and tried to drive off only for him to discover that the back entrance to the building was engulfed in fire and as he raised the alarm that there was fire everywhere, his car suddenly came to a stop.

As he was wondering what next to do, passersby, sympathisers and hoodlums who had come to help in the rescue mission, helped to push the car out of the gate from where he finally escaped.“All this while, I never knew that I had sustained injuries from the blast until I drove off and saw blood stain all over my car and when I checked where it was coming from, I found I had a cut on my head, my elbow and my hand. It was at this point that I drove straight to the hospital to get treatment. I really want to give glory to God because I really cannot explain how I got out of our office if not for his grace.”

He said: “The whole thing just happened like a movie. Honestly, I have never seen a thing like this,” Iroegbu told Daily Sun.
While at the hospital, Iroegbu, who was being attended to by medical staff, had to be abandoned when one of the victims of the bomb blast who sustained serious injuries and in criitical condition was brought in. Apart from the minor injuries he sustained from the bomb blast, Iroegbu also had the windscreen of his car cracked and his laptop damaged.

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