Power Killed the Power Guy - PHCN & Guard died of Electrocution

Tragedy struck at No 30, Aladelola street, Ikosi-Ketu area of Lagos metropolis when a Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) official and a security guard were, on Thursday, electrocuted by a high tension electric wire that passed through a house fell on a car and caught fire.

The deceased, Dele Oshinjin, 33, an Islamic cleric, who was a PHCN official, got electrocuted while trying to rescue Garba 45, the security guard of the house, who got stuck in the car that caught fire from the high tension wire in the early hours of the day.

Narrating the incident to the Nigerian Tribune, Suleiman Oshinjin, brother to the late Dele, explained that  his brother woke up at about 5.a.m.  in readiness to wash his car and head for the mosque which had become his daily routine when, suddenly, he heard a cry from his car where the security guard, Garba, usually slept.

Crying uncontrollably, he continued: “ I was in the mosque when one of the neighbours came to inform me that the wire had electrocuted my brother. What he normally did in the morning was to wash his car before leaving for the mosque. This fateful day, he did not know the wire had fallen on the car.
The police and doctor’s reports confirmed the report. Tribune