By EGUFE IAFUGBORI, PORT HARCOURT
TO be born with disability is quite challenging. Being born whole and having to suffer sudden disability for no fault of yours at a tender age could be cruel, far more challenging and regrettable.
This is the agony 12-year-old Master Uchechukwu Ewurum, a JSS2 student resident at No 8 Ojoto Street, Mile 2, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State now has to contend with. Until February 23 this year, the youngster, according to his father, Peter Ewurum, had been able-bodied, normal and “full of energy”. But that normalcy was shattered when the lad suffered electrocution which prompted the amputation of his entire right arm and left a wide wound on his belly.
Uchechukwu’s ordeal began at House 1 on same Ojoto Street where he had gone with his mother, Stella, to visit a bereaved cousin to his father. Time was about 8.30pm. On the top floor of the storey building where his host lives, high tension power lines of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, dangle across less than a metre apart from the outdoor handrail. Overtime, the space between had become even closer following collapse of the cross arm at the nearby PHCN pole which left a cable sagging a finger tip from the handrail, according to residents.
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