The last few days have
been some of the toughest in the lives of Mrs. Ndidi Ejimba and her
three children Since the shocking demise of their breadwinner, Dominic,
on the evening of Saturday, August 19, 2017……
“My
husband came back to the shop at the end of the first half of the match
between Arsenal and Stoke City to urinate,” 32-year-old Ejimba, who is
carrying a fourth child, revealed.
“He promised to be back
at the end of the match, telling me how his club would win. But about 20
minutes after he left to watch the second half of the match, somebody
rushed to the house to inform me that he had slumped at the viewing
centre and that he was being rushed to a hospital”.
“At a
point, one of our neighbours, who was among those that rushed him to
the hospital, told me to go back to lock the shop and get a vehicle we
could use to transfer him to another hospital”.
According to
him, the hospital he was rushed to couldn’t handle the situation. I
never knew it was a trick to send me away from the place because all
that time my husband was already dead,” she said
Watching
Arsenal play was his life,” Ejimba interjected sharply.. “He would
rebuke and sometimes ignore me whenever I told him to reduce his
obsession with Arsenal.
He loved the club so much. He was
ready to chase his customers away and lock up his shop just to watch the
team play. For the 10 years that we were married, he never stopped
watching football matches involving Arsenal”
Edited from Punch