Trader’s only son electrocuted to death while fleeing from teachers in Calabar

A Government Secondary School student was electrocuted to death while attempting to evade his teachers on Friday.

The 11-year-old student, Isaac Sunday Okon, was said to be his mother’s only son. The trader had lost her husband, Isaac’s father, about seven years ago.

The tragic incident, according to a Calabar news outlet, Calabar Reporter, happened at the school’s premises, located along Atekong drive, State Housing estate, Calabar, Cross River.

The publication quotes an eyewitness identified only as Paul, as saying Isaac was running from teachers who had asked all students to pick up litters in the school premises, when he stepped on a live wire.

““We were asked to come out and pick up pieces of papers and dirts littered around the school compound. The teachers were flogging us and it triggered fear and everyone was running,” Paul is quoted as saying.

“Unknown to the boy, there was a high tension wire resting on a the ground at the far end of the school. He mistakenly stepped on it and got roasted.”

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The eyewitness further said help didn’t come to Isaac until it was too late.

“We that saw him started shouting and calling the teachers to at least call the PHEDC, but everyone said they don’t have airtime – if they’d called on time for the NEPA people to switch off their light, the boy wouldn’t have died.

“Everyone was afraid to touch him, even the teachers that inadvertently caused the death. It was later, a group of people came and used wood to remove him and he was already dead.”