How a single mother lost three children to electric sparks in Delta

March 18, 2017, is a day Favour Elohor Gabriel, single mother of three children who died in Eku, Ethiope East local government area of Delta state can never forget in her life time. It was indeed a tragic day for her and a day no sane man could wish even an enemy to experience.

If anybody had told or prophesied to Favour Elohor Gabriel, that her children would die that fateful day, she would have rebuked or worst still embark on a warfare with the person.

The three children are pupils of Benders School, Eku. John Oluwadare, 16, was in JSS 3; Elizabeth Igben (9) kindergarten 3 and Blessed Igben (6). The fallen pupils, who were said to be lying at the corridor of a neighbour’s house, met their untimely death shortly after electricity was restored that evening at about 7:30 pm.

An eye witness, who simply gave her name as Kevwe, told NAIJ.com that as soon as light was restored, there was a spark at an electric pole, which was connected to the neighbours’ burglary where the children were sleeping and they died on the spot. Available facts reveal that as soon as the electricity sparked, the fallen sparks dropped on the children, a development which led to the immediate death of the children.


Favour Elohor Gabriel, mother of the three children who died in one day through sparks of electricity in Delta. Beside her are the three children in school uniform
One painful aspect about the whole situation is that not only is Elohor a single parent, she is childless at the moment because the three children are the only issues she has. Each time she sits alone, she hears voices in her head; each time she sleeps, especially at night she dreams about them.

While explaining to our correspondent what happened on the fateful day, Elohor said: “It happened in the evening of that day. After we finished taking dinner, my mother came to see me for some family discussion and afterwards she left for home because she stays in Eku too.

‘’So John and I then accompanied her and when we were coming back I bought biscuit for them so that when I got home I could give them since they were lying in my neighbour’s house corridor close to the burglary proof and John took the biscuit to them there and stayed with them.

“Moments later, electricity was restored and, as soon as electricity was restored as there was no light that evening, my neighbor ran screaming and shouting to my house and said, ‘mummy John, mummy John! All your children done die.’

‘’I was confused and before I ran to my neighbour’s house, they have been taken to Eku General Hospital. I was told that when electricity was restored the electric pole close to the house where my children were lying down started sparking and the spark escalated to the burglary and my children died on the spot.

“I am completely empty, in fact; it is only God that is moving me,” she explained with tears dropping from her eyes uncontrollably.

Asked if she had any premonition or dreamed about the death of her children at any time, mother of the deceased children said: “Yes. I dreamed of their death three days before it happened.

“In that dream, I saw a big pit. It is Blessed which is the last born that fell into the pit first and immediately I jumped into the pit to rescue her, but as soon as I jumped into the pit, the place filled up instantly and I brought her out.


How a single mother lost three children to electric sparks in Delta
‘’After saving her, I wanted to step out of it and before my very own eyes I saw another big pit emerged and all my children were inside the pit at the same time and God brought helpers to save all of them. And when I woke up I prayed like never before.

“I fasted for three days from 6am to 6pm. But at the end of the day, my children died,’’ she explained screaming like a woman at the pangs of birth and sobbed uncontrollably.