How My Wife Died At NIS Recruitment Exercise In Benin! Man Narrates

The husband of one of those who didn't make it
alive back home at the just held NIS recruitment
exercise in Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Benin City
has asked the Government to please provide a job
for him to be able to look after the three children
the deceased has now left alone in his care.
According to Mr Amun, he and his late wife woke
up very early that day to be able to get to the venue
on time. After they had queued for a while, he
became tensed and almost couldn't breathe and
asked his wife to let them go home, but she told
him to look for a seat outside the stadium and
relax while she remains on the queue.
While outside the stadium, his wife's brother (who
also came for the same exercise) ran into him and
asked after his sister, and he told him she was on
the queue.
Around 4pm, they were asked to come in and write
a test and he looked all around for her, but she
was nowhere to be found. His younger brother
later forced him to go and write the test, that his
sister must be somewhere writing hers already.
After the test, the search continued and he waited
till around 7pm at the stadium gate for his wife, but
she never came.
After getting home without meeting her at home, he
became more worried and decided to go to the
hospital most of the injured victims were rushed
too, but to his surprise his wife's name was not
among the names of the victims showed to him.
The nurses later told him, a corpse was brought in
with no identification, he asked to see the corpse,
and on getting there, he saw his wife lying down
lifeless.
''Behold I saw my wife sleeping alone. I touched
her, she could not touch me, I called her, she
could not answer'', he said in tears.
Mr Amun also made a vital statement that the
stampede occurred when some immigration
officials locked the stadium's big gate and left the
smaller one opened, and requested that each
candidate pay N1000 each before entering the
stadium. Those who could afford it paid, and those
who couldn't made every effort to get into the
stadium and that lead to the initial stampede, Mr
Amum revealed.
He however pleaded with the Government to
please give him and his brother in-law a job, so he
would be able to look after his three children.
Mrs Sandra Amun applied for the job as a graduate
while her husband applied as a senior secondary
school holder. May her soul continue to rest in
peace.
Late Mrs Sandra's Family