Bukola
Fajana, the husband of the 26 year old lawyer, Damilola Fajana who was
killed by a stray bullet after she drove into a crossfire between
members of the Oodua Peoples Congress OPC and oil bunkers in Arepo, Ogun
state on April 29th, says he wished he was the one that was killed
while his wife and unborn son were spared. A heartbroken Bukola while
narrating the sad incident to Punch, said his wife who was 6 months and
two weeks pregnant was preparing to go give birth in America when this
unfortunate incident happened. He described his late wife as his reason
for his existence.
"Around
2am on Wednesday,
I had serious pains and she rushed me to a private hospital near us. We
knocked the hospital’s door for about 30 minutes, but nobody came out,
so we left the place for another hospital
in Ikeja, where she used for
her ante-natal. She was six months and two weeks pregnant. She was with
me till around
4pm
when she said she wanted to go home. She was supposed to go to the
immigration office for her data capture because she was to deliver her
baby in the United States. But because of my illness, she postponed the
appointment till
Thursday. When she was about to leave, I decided to call someone to drive her home.”he said
Bukola
said he called while they were on their way to know where exactly they
where and he was informed they just arrived their area. He said few
minutes later, he got a call from the driver who drove his wife that she
had been shot in the neck
"It was barely a
year we got married that this happened. I am saddened because she was my
heart and brain. She was the reason for my existence. She was contented
with the little I could afford us. I wish I had died and both my wife
and my son ─ the pregnancy was a baby boy ─ had lived. At least, I would
have had a son to survive me,” he said.
