Residents of Okon-Aku in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State condemned at the weekend the death of Sunday Okezie Kalu.
He was among the five people, who died at the Nigeri Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise during a stampede at the Elekahia Stadium in Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital.
They wailed as the remains of Kalu, a microbiologist, arrived from Port Harcourt.
His body left Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH) at 6am and was received by his parents, relatives and youths about noon.
A white ambulance carrying Kalu’s remains was escorted to his hometown by his weeping friends, who handed the body to Ohafia youths. They took it round the community.
When the body got to his family home, the late Kalu’s 48-year-old mother, Mrs. Justina Okezie Kalu, who had collapsed and was hospitalised for days on hearing of her son’s death, went into a coma and almost died. His father was speechless. He watched his son’s body, as it was brought out of the ambulance. His legs were trembling and his head was bowed.
The people at the funeral rejected a condolence message by the State Command of NIS. The victim’s relatives said it should not be read, as it was unnecessary.
The deceased’s father, a 55-year-old security guard with the Abia State Primary School Board, said nobody should blame his son for attending the recruitment, but the organisers, who toyed with people’s lives.
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