50-year-old father electrocuted during illegal connection in Osogbo
Sodiq Oyeleke
A 50-year-old man, Mr Moshood Mojoko has died of electrocution on ann electric pole at Zone C, Road 7, Ago Ayo Community, behind Ilesa Motor Park at Oke-Ijetu in Osogbo, capital of Osun State.
It was learnt that the victim is a father of five children.
According to residents of the area, Mojoko has always been assisting in fixing the light whenever it develops fault.
It was gathered that the deceased who was a refrigerator repairer wanted to connect live wire on the pole when the incident happened.
An eyewitness said, "Moshood wants to take advantage of power outage to quickly make the connection and tin the process of carrying out
the task, power is restored and he died on the pole.
"Moshood has already sent his wife to his house to
bring his rubber hand glove but he could not wait for the woman to come back and he climbed the pole hastily, using bare hand to hold
naked live wire."
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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