I don’t know him personally; I have heard a lot of positive attributes of the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, that made it almost impossible to believe that the minister had a hand in the death of a nurse, Mary Habila, in a guest house in the ex-governor’s Uburu residence in Ebonyi State. According to Umahi, the nurse, working with the Dave Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, had lived in the same house for about three years.
I do not pray for people to die, no matter how old, but I have come to realise that it’s a phase every homo sapiens must pass through. Even the Bible confirms it: “A time to be born and a time to die.”
What saddens me when I hear about the death of young persons, like Citizen Mary, is the pain in the immediate family, which had invested so much in the upbringing of the departed. One equally believes that the deceased, having departed this world at such a young age, had a lot of dreams that will ultimately be buried with him or her. What about the circle of friends, who would discover that one of the shining lights of the circle had suddenly disappeared, never to be seen anymore? The thoughts of the pain get deeper when the departed left behind young children who do not even understand the implications of what had happened, leaving the burdens for the partner to shoulder alone. This latter does not apply to Citizen Mary, though.
