Jos Explosions: The Last Words Of Student Who Died In The Blast

Lydia Komolafe, one of the victims of last Tuesday’s twin bomb explosions at the Terminal Market, Jos, Plateau State, had in weeks preceding her untimely death lamented the alarming rate of terrorist attacks in the country.

The deceased Lydia Komolafe

On May 19, a day before she lost her life to the Jos explosions, Lydia had taken to twitter to pray for a brighter and rewarding week. The post read, “This week, I shall be satisfied with favour.”

Unfortunately, this was not to be as she was among the seven students of the Medical Laboratory Science Department of the University of Jos, who died in the twin bomb blasts.

No fewer than 200 people died in the twin bomb blasts which hit Jos Terminus Market on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, in Plateau state.

 Lydia had often penned her thoughts and views on social media. She condemned the Federal Government for allowing the insurgency to thrive by playing the ethnic and political card from the outset, while also expressing concerns that Nigerians were no longer safe in motor parks.

One of her tweets read, "they ignored the red flag for terrorism when it started earlier in Jos and Kaduna. Nobody cared. They called it all kind of names. They called it religion, ethnic, political. We suffered in silence. They shut us up! Now it’s coming closer ‘home,’ the seat of government and everyone is crying wolf! If only we had curbed it earlier!"

She had also expressed concern over the abducted Chibok school girl, joining in the global campaign for the release of the girls.

"Nobody should be punished for going to school! There’s no basis to this kidnap! Our hearts are bleeding. Please bring them alive! May the angels protect them wherever they may be," she had posted on twitter," she had said.

When there was the second Nyanya bomb blast on May 1, Lydia had called on Nigerians to pray for an end to terrorism.

While paying a tribute to the deceased, one of her close friends, Zion Abiodun, described her as a “Yoruba girl who loved the North like anything.”