Woman Narrates Life-Threatening Experience With Escalators At MMIA Lagos
A woman has narrated a life-threatening experience with escalators at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.
Dele Momodu who has also been a victim in the past also helped share the story and videos on his page.
Just sad!
Her narration and videos all below…
Wotowoto!
”Life-Threatening Experience with Escalators at Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.
On Saturday 3rd September 2022, I returned to Nigeria with my family.
My excited 5 year old wanted to use the escalator instead of the stairs. We travel around the world and escalators are normal to him. However I had in the past warned my kids not to use escalators in Nigeria (how sad). On this day, he wanted to and I insisted I held his hand (there’s no place in the countries we go that I’ve held his hand on an escalator).
I noticed the razor-sharp edges of the escalator and it was going very fast. I looked down and the very fast escalator had people tumbling on themselves. Humans started piling on each other. My reflex, I lifted my 5 year old in the air, he spread his legs high while I lay on my back joining the pile of humans at the base of the escalator. The only defense I had for myself was
to raise my head so that only my back was bearing the grind of the escalators. A passenger snatched my 5 year old from me . My 9 year old son that was behind me jumped over the railings and other passengers caught him.
My husband was behind me and had managed to take a grip that only his back was scratched by the sharp edges. My daughter and Gloria who were on the escalators behind my husband were running back up the escalators.
Eventually Some people lifted me up at the base of the death-trap called escalators. The immigration officers that were looking at us, looked away while continuing with the job at hand on which passengers will be in a net, ‘catch for the day’. Despite the shouts, the wailing and pandemonium, everyone was going on with their activities. It took them over 40 minutes for first aid to arrive after my husband had shouted down the airport.
I remember when those escalators happened to a boy years before. That was why I warned my children, but my 5 year old was too young to remember. I went to the hospital and I was given a tetanus injection. Gloria had an X-ray taken of her hand.The body ache, swelling on my back and legs is ongoing.
I wonder who certified and approved the safety/ use of these escalators. We were told that they were serviced a few days…
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So sad