This tragedy is too much for us to bear –Families of 26 church youths who drowned in River Benue

Wailings from an inconsolable young lady in her 20s, Renance Vincent, moved many sympathisers to tears.

The lady’s younger siblings identified as triplets were among the 26 youths of the Evangelical Church Winning All who drowned in River Benue last Sunday.

The woman gazed at the ceiling occasionally, deeply lost in thought. The family in one of flats lost two children to the boat accident while another lost one of their two children. Our correspondent learnt that the youth leader arranged for a bigger boat which would convey them. But at the time they left the church and arrived at the River around 12:30pm that day, the boat operator had gone and they were left to seek alternative means of getting to their destination.

“Paulina was committed to church activities. Some of her friends after service on Sunday saw her collecting N200 for the trip and told her not to attend. But she replied them that they wanted to stop her from serving God. “It was later I heard someone say the youth who went for the programme were involved in a boat accident. That was when I started calling the phones of my siblings. The phones rang out.”

He added, “He told me that I could use it as he would be attending the programme. Shedrak became the eldest child in our family when we lost the first child sometime ago and now, he too is no more. “I tried his phone four times and it rang but nobody picked it. I also called the phone of another person I knew they were together, the person’s phone rang but there was no response too.

John Bulus, an Assistant Pastor with the ECWA, Adeke chapter, Makurdi, is a member of the Bulus family who lost five persons to the boat calamity.

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