Agony of the Dad to the late Corp member,Lamina

The father of Temitope Balqis Omolabake Lamina, the
21-year-old National Youth Coprs member who lost her
life » in a ghastly motor accident on October 26, on her
way to Sokoto State to serve her nation, Lateef Lamina ,
has continued to feel the pains of losing such a
promising child in the way she died.

Lamina, a staff of New Telegraph Newspaper, is yet to
come to terms with the demise of his daughter though
he says he had a premonition that his beloved daughter
was destined to die young
The corpse of the vibrant lady was brought back to the
family's Ijoko-Ota, Ogun State home for burial amidst
tears and wailings on Tuesday, October 28 but her father
who tried valiantlky not to cry, could not hold back his
tears and sorrow.
“I still vividly recalled the last time I saw her. She was
returning to her post in Sokoto. I took her to Iddo Park
last Sunday. I remembered looking at the Sienna car she
boarded.
For reasons I couldn’t fathom, I felt uneasy. I asked one
of the conductors at the park if he was sure the Sienna
car wouldn’t have an accident on the way.
I bid her farewell. But I was later awoken that night by a
caller, who told me that my daughter had died in an
accident and was in the mortuary.”
Tope was a Mass Communication graduate of the
University of Benin, Edo State and had come to Lagos
from her base to attend her mother’s reception after
coming back from the recent Hajj in Mecca.