‎Bystanders stole my money while I delivered Lagos pregnant woman – Biker, Enya ‎

Enya

Ilorin-based biker, Emmanuel Enya, speaks to VICTOR AYENI about his encounter with a heavily pregnant woman at Ojota, Lagos, who went into labour and delivered a baby he later resuscitated
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‎Can you describe how you first encountered the pregnant woman at Ojota, Lagos?
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‎I think it was on the first Saturday of this month. I was coming to Lagos from Ilorin, Kwara State, for two job interviews—one was in Surulere and the other in Ikoyi. I first went to see one of my former clients, who asked me to stop by his site in Sagamu. We had a long meeting, and I had to tell him I was going to Lagos.
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‎It was raining, and I rode my bike in that rain from Sagamu to Berger. But when I reached Berger and began approaching Ojota, the rain stopped, so I increased my speed.
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‎Around Ojota, on the way to Maryland, I first noticed someone standing awkwardly by the roadside, but I brushed it off as one of the street thugs in Lagos. There was traffic building up around Maryland, so I parked my bike and looked through my side mirror and then saw the same person again. This time, she was looking in my direction.
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‎So, I turned my bike against traffic and managed to get to her. When I got to her, her speech was incoherent. She kept telling me, “Ikorodu General Hospital,” but I couldn’t connect the dots. So, I asked the guys around, and they answered me in Yoruba that she was mentally ill.
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‎Though I could sense that she was in pain, I didn’t know she was pregnant because she wore an oversized gown that hid the size of her tummy. I asked her, ‘Madam, how can I help you?’ She kept saying, ‘Ikorodu’, so I told her we would cross to the other side of the road so she could find a bus going to Ikorodu.
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‎As she moved her legs, she screamed in pain, and it seemed unbearable. So, I placed a call to the emergency line, but it kept ringing. The guy with me said they had also been calling the line, but there was no answer.
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‎I tried an e-hailing cab, which would cost N18,000. It said the driver was on his way, so I asked the guy beside me how much it would take to get a commercial bus (danfo) to Ikorodu, and he told
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‎me N5,000. I gave him the money to bring the danfo, but the guy ran away with my money.
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Kindly read the full interview through the link below..👇🏼

https://punchng.com/bystanders-stole-my-money-while-i-delivered-lagos-pregnant-woman-biker-enya/

Culled from punch newspaper