By Chude Ojugbana
Truly, life has its special way of
producing reasonable and unreasonable coincidences or even a mix of both,
depending on how one’s lenses are polarized. Specifically, about a week
before the November, 20th commemoration of 2016 World Day of Remembrance, WDR
for road crash victims, as the Management of Nigeria’s lead agency on road
safety, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC was busy effectively co-ordinating
activities in respect of annual memorials for road crash victims and drawing
public attention to the huge preventable road deaths, suddenly, a worrisome
headline appeared in many Nigerian newspapers “Missing Nigerian Journalist
Found Dead”. According to a major online media, Sahara Reporters, “Mr.
Adeparusi left his Kugbo, Abuja apartment on his motorcycle at around 1:00 p.m
on Sunday. After not returning home, Mr. Adeparusi’s neighbours, friends and
colleagues placed several calls to his mobile phone that went unanswered. His
employers, Naij.com noted that this was unusual, as Mr. Adeparusi was a “very
professional and clear-headed individual; not the kind of person to wander
off.” He was subsequently declared missing and found dead on Tuesday in an
apparent motorcycle accident”.