Opinion: Ethiopian Airline Crash: When Stars Went Down At Sunrise, By Owei Lakemfa
This tragedy is global and the issue now is not who to blame, but to understand why and how the crash occured and how to get past what at first glance, seems a failed wrestle between man and computer.Naija No Dey Carry Last
Initially, we did not realise that Nigeria had lost one of its brightest because Canada, in realising his huge intellectual capacity and potentials, had made Adesanmi its citizen; so he was flying on a Canadian passport. His death is as devastating as that of another very brilliant Nigerian intellectual, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, who in 2009, was based in Nairobi as deputy director, Africa Office of the UN Millennium Campaign.
The aircraft lifted an assemblage that looked like the UN itself as it had on board passengers of more than 35 nationalities. They included 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians and nine Britons. Italy, United States and China had eight citizens each and France, seven. As it turned out, Nigeria had two.
Anton Hrnko, a Slovakian law maker is left to mourn his wife, Blanka; daughter, Michala; and son, Martin. Sahra Hassan Said and her son, Nasrudin Abdulkadir, both dual Somali-British nationals went down with the plane as did a Russian couple, Yekaterina Polyakova and her husband, Alexander Polyakov. Another couple, Jared Mwazo Babu, who founded a Nairobi-based marketing agency, and his wife, Mercy Ndivo, left behind a 15-month-old daughter.
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