Dana crash: Ghosts’ scare grips Iju
residents
LAGOS – Following concerns over alleged
plans to bury victims of Sunday’s Dana
plane crash at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, some
residents of the area have appealed to
the authorities not to bury the victims in
the area, for fear of ghosts.
The residents, who based their
apprehension on their belief in the
existence of ghosts, noted that it was
natural that when human beings die
prematurely, their ghosts will haunt the
scene for a while.
Idayatu Ali, a 24-year-old unemployed
school leaver, said she would not want
the victims buried at the scene of the
accident, following fear of ghosts.
She said: adding “this is not superstition;
I have witnessed where a young man
died in an accident and his ghost
continued to cry at the scene for days
until a sacrifice was performed.”
Pleading with the authorities not to bury
the victims in the area, Ali said, “Please,
tell them not to bury the victims here or
else some of us will abandon our
houses.”
But another resident, a commercial
motorcyclist, Jude, who spoke to
Vanguard at the crash site, said he and
some colleagues could easily offer
sacrifices to Ogun (the Yoruba god of
iron) to get rid of any ghost terror.
Meanwhile, the South-West Zonal
Coordinator, National Emergency
Management Agency, Mr. Iyiola Akande,
has said there was no decision to busy
the victims any where yet.