A Nigerian Girl Who Returns ToNigeria After Completing 1st And 2ndDegrees In UK Killed By A RecklessDanfo Driver(PHOTOS)
A 25-year-old girl, Doyin Sarah Fagbenro who
returned to Nigeria after graduating with a
sterling First Degree in Law and a Post Graduate
degree in the United Kingdom has
accident supposedly caused by a Danfo Driver.
Doyin had returned to Nigeria to enlist in the
National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. The future
looked bright as she was wanted by an Energy
Firm even before she completes her NYSC.
On a routine journey to Church on a Sunday, she
had an accident supposedly caused by a danfo
driver who fled the scene.
A touching tribute written by her cousin, Ken
Davidson
Captures all the story.
Read below;
DSF: Tribute To A Shining Starlet.
Oh death! Where is thy sting? O grave, where is
thy victory? Another Casualty of a broken and
failed State. Your story is particularly Gut
Wrenching as it is equally heartbreaking. You
spent near enough all but two of your 25 years
on earth in the Country of your Birth, the United
Kingdom where your Parents and entire family
reside. You were born, bred and educated in the
United Kingdom.
But two years ago, immediately after you
graduated, you elected to visit Nigeria where
your Grandparents reside – both of whom are in
their Mid Eighties. You signed up for the National
Youth Service having freshly graduated with a
sterling First Degree in Law and a Post Grad
immediately afterwards. You were headhunted by
an Energy Firm before you completed your NYSC
and a presto you gallantly announced to your
Nervous Parents – Dad a Diplomat with the
United Nations based in Italy and Mum a
Pharmacist based in the United Kingdom, your
country of Birth – that you were going to
permanently relocate and make Nigeria your
permanent abode. Your Grandparents were
ecstatic, you being their most favourite Grand
Daughter.
You were a straight A student right from when
you passed your GCSEs through to when you
excelled in your A’levels…so much so that
Prestigious Queen Mary’s London University
snapped you to study Law. You missed a First by
whisker’s. Nevertheless you made your mark all
the way through.
Then it all came crashing down. What was
supposed to be a routine journey to Church on a
relatively sombre, otherwise uneventful Sunday
morning on the Lekki/Ajah Expressway around
the Lekki Phase 1 approach turned into a living
and eternal nightmare for those of us left
struggling to pick up the pieces. Our lives
changed forever, never to be the same again. A
victim of the reckless and probably high on
drinks/drugs ‘Danfo’ Driver. The most galling of
the entire episode was the fact that the driver of
that Danfo survived unscathed, RAN away from
the scene leaving a trail of Death and
Destruction in his wake. Four people died at the
scene. Your New Toyota Corolla was a crumpled
wreck. But the Fighter that you were, despite
massive injuries, you fought and fought and
fought. Your Dad, via his status at the United
Nations, got you into Lagoon Hospital where you
were for a few days. When it became clear that
the extent of your injuries was too severe for the
local facilities here in Nigeria, An Air Ambulance
was scrambled from the United Kingdom to get
you much needed Specialist Care in the United
Kingdom. Your tireless mum who flew in from
the United Kingdom, barely 48 hours after the
accident, accompanied you in the Air Ambulance.
Still we Prayed and Prayed and Hoped for the
Best. Sadly We lost you a day after you arrived in
the United Kingdom. The Surgeons tried
desperately. You fought desperately to hang on.
But in the end, it was not to be.
The pain is palpably raw as it is numbling. We
asked again and again, Why you? Why You? If
only you had stayed on in the country of your
Birth, If only…so many questions but very few
answers. Your Parents, Your Grandparents, Oh!
Your Grandma, with whom you celebrated her
80th Birthday over here in Nigeria a few years
ago has refused to eat since she was informed
of your passing nearly a week ago…All she
repeatedly does is wail, wail to space “God Take
Me instead, Give My Granddaughter back to
Nigeria. Nigeria Needs Her, Her Parents Need
her. God Take me. God Take Me.”.
These are indeed extremely perilous times. And
so it was that having just spent barely a few
weeks in Nigeria after a prolonged Winter holiday
and Christmas in the United Kingdom with family
and friends, I now find myself in the rather
unenviable position of scrambling for the next
flight out back to the United Kingdom just so
that I can attend your Funeral this weekend.
Someone retorted to me “Oh, you know, ‘our
tradition’ forbids older relatives attending and
being present at funerals where the deceased is
much younger than us…” I snapped back, which
tradition? And what has tradition ever done for
us? What did Tradition ever give to HER?
I am here like a Zombie, mechanically and
circuitously packing a few items for my flight out
in the morning. The Family has decided that
yours would be a Celebratory Sending Forth, so
RED rather than the traditional Grey, Black would
be the colour to be worn on the Day.
DSF as you were very fondly called, you touched
so many lives in the quarter century, (twenty five
years only!) you ran your race on earth. You
were considerate to the end so much so that
you waited until you got back home – nearer
your parents and many siblings – before you
finally bade the World Farewell.
Doyin Sarah Fagbenro, My Learned Friend in the
Profession, My lil Sister, My Cousin, Sleep Well
till we meet again.
O Death! Where is Thy Sting!
(Doyin Sarah Fagbenro, 1990 – 2016)
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