It
was a plaintive call at noon on Friday. The caller was 13-year-old
David Adeojo. The voice was clearly of a young boy in distress. When he
narrated the reason for his calling, it was apparent the boy wanted
help; someone to intervene in the case of his grandmother languishing at
the medical emergency ward of the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital.
“My grandmother and I went to SARS
(State Anti-Robbery Squad) yesterday (Thursday) because she was afraid
they had killed my uncle who was arrested four months ago. They shouted
at her and dragged her out. But later that day, she slumped and became
paralysed,” the boy said on the phone.
Our correspondent visited the ward where
55-year-old widow and evangelist, Bose Bajulaye, was receiving drip at
LASUTH soon after, and her physical condition told a lot about the
suffering the woman was going through.
