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Drowning fisherman refuses help from rescue team

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While on my way home from work yesterday,I noticed an unusual traffic jam on the Jabi bridge.As I looked to know what the chaos was about,I saw a little crowd of people looking over the bridge and into the lake below.I also saw some policemen,a fire service van and some men obviously of the rescue squad,interestingly,these guys seemed unperturbed about whatever the challenge was.I couldn't help stopping to ask questions from observers.Trust my country people nah,everyone had his own  version of the story but one seemed to make sense to me;The time was about 8:15pm,the young man told me that two fishermen were fishing in their boat around 5pm when it suddenly  capsized and all efforts to rescue them proved abortive.In fact ,he said one of the fishermen  had died already and the one alive was now very tired.In  the dark, he showed me what looked like a human  form in  the water.When I asked why the rescue team was  not doing an ything to save the man ,another guy was quick to say they had tried their best but it seemed the drowning man  was destined to die because,according to him,whenever the rescue  boat got close enough to save him ,the water would push him  farther away,yet another guy interjected and said it was the drowning man himself who insisted he didn't need the rescue team's help.Very confusing indeed.
Anyway,I left the scene thereafter when the crowd started growing,however,just before I left,I saw two boats making their way to the human form I earlier saw,probably for the umpteenth time.
I heard just this morning that the man died after all...could something have been following him as was speculated last night to kill him and make him refuse help or was his death as a result of the inefficiency of the rescue team.The matter just tire me.May their souls rest in peace biko...

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Anonymous said…
na wao...naija stories di egwu
May 15, 2012 at 7:31 PM
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