Nigerian couple who died in the Otedola Bridge gas inferno are trending on the internet, two weeks after their unexpected demise.
Dozie Okoye, a staff member of Zenith Bank’s Ladipo Oluwole branch in Ikeja, Lagos, and Joan Gusiora, his beautiful wife, a nurse with a promising career in the United States, have been closed finally in the bowels of the red earth, a final story that awaits all mortals.
Just a month ago, on Saturday, February 22, the atmosphere at the Momoh Gardens, 18, Wole Olateju Crescent, Lekki Phase 1, was virtually on fire with celebration as the same families, friends and well-wishers gathered to add colour to their wedding reception, shortly after exchanging rings and marriage vows at the Saint Jude’s Anglican Church on Ademola Ajasa Street, Omole Phase 1, Ikeja.
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However, on Saturday, March 22, it was another kind of music at the Okoye family, Agulu Village, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State where both hailed. That is where the two bodies were sealed, after that of the young lady, who would have returned to her duty post in the US last week Friday, would have visited her own home in her father’s compound at Enugu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government.
They were said to be returning home when they were caught in the inferno, having been completely trapped as the car in which they were travelling was right behind the tanker that exploded and therefore had no chance of escaping as the incident must have happened in split seconds.
Otedola Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has since become notorious for such accidents, having hosted similar gas or petroleum tanker explosions on different occasions in recent years, with multiple fatalities recorded.
