Nigeria: Anyenes' Home in Connecticut - Beautiful but Desolate

8 June 2012

No. 28 Park Place Circle, West Hartford, Connecticut, US, used to be a beehive of activities. Maimuna Anyene lived there with her four children and mother-in-law. The husband, Onyeka, who was based in Nigeria, visited so frequently it was second home to him. All the four children, including a set of twins, were aged two years and below. There were always noise, giggles and cries - the children's stuff.

No. 28 Park Place Circle has become desolate. There is no life whatsoever in it. No noise, no giggles, no cries. All the occupants are now dead. They were aboard Dana Flight 0992 that came down last Sunday in Lagos, killing all the passengers and many tenants of a two-storey at Iju-Ishaga

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