Car crashes at "haunted" spot UNILAG student was "electrocuted"
By Aramide Kamal
New Hall hostels at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) is now “being haunted” by “the spirit” of a female student shocked to death on September 8.
That is the apprehension of some students when a car, barely one week after Oluchi Anekwe’s tragedy, crashed at the same spot a live electric cable fell on the First student of Accounting.
Eyewitnesses said the car almost rammed several students into a wall at the spot.
The students, some of whom had to acrobatically jump out of the path of the onrushing car, were reportedly angry with the unhurt driver and were about descending on him when security personnel intervened.
One of the security officials who reportedly saved the driver from being lynched by the livid students said it was by the grace of God no one was killed or injured in the crash.
The circumstances that led to the Monday crash remain a mystery.
Some say the driver was probably carried away by some of the exquisitely beautiful female students passing through the place.
Whatever the case was, the driver lost control of his car and rammed it into the wall at the same spot where Oluchi met what eventually killed her.
Eyewitnesses said the driver appeared to hit his head on the steering when he crashed his car into the wall.
He, however, emerged apparently unhurt from the mild wreckage seconds after the crash.
Students who witnessed the incident said the security men on duty handled the situation professionally.
There were random sayings from various students that the entrance to New
Hall may have been cursed hence the reoccurrence of accidents at the location.
There are other insinuations the hall is being haunted by Oluchi Anekwe’s “ghost.”
Others, however, say the crash was another case of reckless driving just as they say Oluchi’s death was a tragic result of the failure of electricity service providers to install power cables properly.
UNILAG authorities have told students to blame Oluchi’s death on the electricity providers who ran their cable through the school.
Oluchi was not electrocuted. She made it to hospital where nurses who should have tried saving her first were reportedly more interested in verifying whether or not she was a UNILAG student.
“These kind of ineptitude and disregard for human life is what continually haunts us,” a UNILAG student told Newsroom, Friday morning.
