The president, Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mr Femi Adesina, has stated that the late vice chairman of the SUN Publishing Company Limited, Mr Dimgba Igwe, would have survived the accident that claimed his life if prompt medical attention had reached him.
Speaking in a telephone chat with LEADERSHIP, Adesina who recounted his last contact with Igwe in a tone laden with nostalgia recalled four grueling hours the late journalist had battling with his life.
According to Adesina, who said he was a protege of the late journalist, having worked under him as a reporter in the defunct WEEKEND CONCORD, the late Igwe was initially moved to a private hospital somewhere in Isolo.
“When the staff of the hospital sensed that the injuries sustained by Igwe was beyond the scope they could cope with, they transferred him to Isolo General Hospital. Unfortunately, there was no surgeon around at the time he was taken there, so they had to move him to Lagos University Teaching Hospital where he died,” he said. [eap_ad_2] Adesina whose voice betrayed his emotion said the deceased had to endure four hours of pain, as the incident occurred about 6am but he had to give up the ghost at the emergency surgical theatre about 10am on Saturday.
Nevertheless, Adesina eulogised the late newshound whom he described as a mentor to many successful journalists in the country today.
On what he would remember the late journalist for, he said: “He trained me just as he trained some other journalists at that time. I was a young reporter when I joined the Sunday Concord in 1989. He was the deputy editor, so he virtually trained us in the rudiments of the profession.”[eap_ad_3]
