School children who survived Itafaji building collapse open up on their fears of going back to school
Recently, in Itafaji, Lagos Island, a building housing a school collapsed and this has caused a lot of trauma and havoc to virtually everyone who was affected by the collapse. Recently, some of the school children who were involved in the incident were interviewed and made to talk about their experiences. Hearing their stories firsthand really expresses the depth of the wreck caused by the event. For one, a 3-year-old boy named Kabiru Sasore was interviewed by the The Independent He revealed that he was afraid of going back to school to study due to the impact of the accident. According to him, he had been eating in class when the incident happened. Just as he was digging deep in his food, he heard a sound which he thought was a bomb. However, he was quick to find out that it was not a bomb, but a building collapse. To this effect, he said: “I was eating in my class when my school collapsed, I heard a loud sound, and our school shook and all of us fell on each other. I was afraid a