A good accident, recently occurred at Ugwuawarawa in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. Thanks to the accident, a mentally-challenged 62 year old mother, Victoria, who was hit became sane again.
It would have sent the 62-year-old mother of four to her grave, but
instead it served as the beginning of her healing process from the
protracted mental illness that bedeviled her.
For well over three decades, Mrs. Ugwu, popularly known as Mama
Nnenna, battled with madness and many times gone stark naked as a result
of her ill health.
An eyewitness revealed that after the
accident, Mrs. Ugwu was rushed to Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka, by
the driver of the car that hit her, though she refused all medical
attention given to her by the hospital.
Confirming the incident, Mrs. Ugwu’s daughter, Nnenna, explained that
“what happened to my mother can best be described as miraculous
healing. I have never seen such a rapid healing. I am so happy that she
is now recovering though we are currently facing challenges of getting
money to buy her drugs regularly.
“Her drugs cost like N15,000 monthly but presently, I don’t have such
kind of money. Even her feeding is becoming increasing difficult for me
because I am the only person staying with her. I am just a staff of
Nsukka Local Government Area and you know the salary is not forthcoming
regularly.”
Asked where she has been when all these years her mother was ill: “I
have been with my uncle. Each and every time I came around Total filling
station and saw her tattered and picking refuse from dumpsites, I
always felt so bad. It was always heart rending and too difficult to
imagine.”
Ezeaku said: “Her problem started as far back as 1984. She started by
taking her children to the streets and refuse dump to pick some food.
When her husband’s relations saw what was happening, they took the
children away from her and she came back to stay with her husband who
was then a driver with the local education authority.
“Few years after this, her husband disappeared and I alerted his
relations about the development and they started looking for him. Later,
they found him dead somewhere in Nsukka and took him to his village and
buried him. Mrs Victoria continued living here all alone amassing all
sorts of refuse to her house since all these three decades.”
On her present situation, Ezeaku: “When we went to see her at the
hospital after the accident and discovered that she couldn’t receive any
medication from the hospital, I reported to the police for permission
to take her back to her house and also to treat her using both orthodox
and herbal medicines. I was given the permission and I brought her back
here and since then, she has been getting better by the day.
“The only problem we have now is finance. I am a retired director in
the Nsukka Local Government Education Authority. I have not received my
gratuity neither has the government paid me pension since 2014 I
retired. For this reason, I have no money to continue taking care of her
medically and otherwise.”
Ezeaku, however, said some philanthropic individuals and
organizations including the former Cathedral Administrator, Catholic
Diocese of Nsukka, Rev. Fr. Uche Obodoechina, Vicar General, Monsignor
Thaddeus Onoyima, Station Council, STC, GRA Women Wing Nsukka , Nsukka
Legislative Council, among others, have made donations toward the upkeep
of the woman, pointing out that since then, nobody has been willing to
help her financially.
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