Loveth Sunday, a 27-year-old indigene of Anambra State, speaks with CHUKWUDI AKASIKE about how her life took a different turn after she was knocked down by a bus three weeks after her introduction ceremony, became an amputee, and abandoned by her fiancé
Where are you from?
I am from Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State.
What is your occupation?
I am a hairstylist but sell perfume.
You were seen in a video dancing even when you are physically challenged. What led to the amputation of your leg?
I was involved in a fatal accident. I said it was a fatal accident because it took two lives.
How did the accident happen?
It was a bus that had a brake failure that knocked me down where I was standing by the roadside. The bus veered off the road and hit three people, including me. Two people died while I survived. I didn’t see the bus coming towards me because it happened so fast.
What happened after you were hit by the vehicle?
I was rushed to the hospital by sympathisers who were around the scene of the accident, and I was in a coma for five days. I was rushed to the first hospital but was rejected by the medical workers on the ground.
A similar situation happened at the second hospital where the sympathisers took me to; I was rejected by five hospitals. I was attended to at the sixth hospital.
When did the accident happen?
It happened on the 12th of April 2019, at the front of Oraifite Police Station. I was going to Onitsha to buy one or two items for one of my siblings.
