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As shared by Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota

Confession: I am trying hard to stop having feelings of “Thank goodness I left” whenever I hear of any tragedy in Nigeria but by relationship with Nigeria has been abusive. I have had near-death experiences on visits even after I left. People die there daily needlessly. DAILY!

There is so much casualness to matters of life and death that you would think that these people don't realize that it could also happen to them. Someone talked about people blocking an ambulance in traffic and I imagined myself in 2014 almost bleeding to death in Victoria Island.

The same casual and careless approach to the lives of others led me there and almost killed me. I got to Nigeria from Ghana for a meeting with TOTAL and checked into Radisson Blu hotel. I decided to take a shower before the meeting and it was around noon. It was almost fatal.

The glass bathroom door broke and almost amputated my leg. I still have a slight limp and cant bend that leg fully while taking a shower. There was luckily limited vascular damage but there was extensive nerve damage as I am finding out years later. They didn't use tempered glass.

This was meant to be one of the very top hotels in Nigeria at the time and it was stupidly expensive. They also didn't have any emergency services and no stretcher or ambulance. They were trying to sneak me out through the back stairway on the back of a porter to avoid a scene.

I could have died instantly and that was how they could have sneaked my body out too without anyone knowing. The next thing that happened was even worse. They were trying to take me to some strange hospital that I didn't know on the other side if Victoria Island in bad traffic.

Redington Hospital was not far from them but they didn't even consider it. That was what pissed me off the most. I'm asked if they would have done that if I wasn't black? Nobody answered. I got them to take me to Redington and that was what saved my life as I was losing blood.

We got to Redington and they were wasting my time. I only discovered after asking that they wanted a deposit and the hotel people who brought me had disappeared. The hotel management was not reachable. Luckily I had some Naira and transferred 1 million Naira to them from Gtbank.

Another stroke of luck was having a trauma surgeon who had worked in Pamplona, Spain with expertise in led injuries present. He had just finished a shift but he agreed to do surgery as the other doctor was not yet around. He saved my leg and my life. It was traumatic.

I walked with crutches for months and till today I can't bath in a bathroom that has glass doors unless I see TEMPERED GLASS boldly written. Even then, I am extremely careful. I am sure the people who built the hotel didn't care if that kind of accident was even possible.
I am taking my time but they will all pay dearly for this.
*my relationship
*I asked
*leg injuries

So many typos as it still makes me emotional. I had a 6-month-old baby son at the time who could have not known me if I had died.

https://twitter.com/asemota/status/1457269112082767874

Celebrating FTC ever since I joined this platform, not just FTC but FTC under the most dreadful personality @Lalasticlala, I greet you sir.

Thank God for your life. They don't really know who you are, they don't know you have 9 lives
How do they have the mind to dump you in the hospital and disappear, didn't they think you can sue them to court.

Nigerians are their own enemies.Imagine treating ur fellow black man like waste ?.Somebody entered ur hotel from front door and u smuggled him thru back door /dumped him in hospital to go sort himself out.Imagine if he’s poor man

Thank God for life...a compensation could have been offered atleast

Chaii na so u for don dieoo

This hotel people wicked ooo

Na so I go one hotel for PH them say one room is 6,000. As I pay the money.
I come carry my babe won f*ck, naso I see camera for the room.

I just Carry my girl shoe break am.

Wahala

Problem no deh ever finish...

Uhn

Thank God you survived.

Meanwhile life is transient but if you live each day as it was your last, someday, you'll most certainly be right.

OMG this is not good at all. Thank God for your life. This is just so sad. This is why one needs to be extremely careful careful.

"I actually stopped reading when he said "They also didn't have any emergency services and no stretcher or ambulance". Are you kidneying me?

Abeg name one hotel in the world that has an ambulance, even Burj Al Arab - the World's only 7 Star Hotel in Dubai don't have an ambulance. It's either you are confusing Radisson Blue Hotel for Radisson Blue Hospital or you just want to cashout?

A 5 year old kid can lie better than this nigger.

Then he said: They were trying to sneak me out through the back stairway on the back of a porter to avoid a scene..Now this is absolutely laughable, where you expecting them to take you through the guest lobby so that everyone can have a good view of your injured leg? This is a hotel nigger and not a school or factory". - Village People spokesperson.

It must be the one at Anthony

Damnnn niggar
Ogbeni op relax....you are becoming too emotional



For everyday we wake we are faced with more than a hundred ways to die

If I tell you the amount I spent to pay for a cup of coffee in that hotel in year 2013 enh.

Hmm

So terrible

This article seems more like blackmail

Sue those bastard and asked for damages till they become penniless.Be ruthless and show no mercy.

Omo

Our country is a Zoo

You were very fortunate. So many lives have been lost under similar circumstances & gross negligence.

Chai we don Suffer for This country.
I mean A Foreign Hotel Tried to Kill A Foreign Dude on our Land

Thank God you survived

Thank God for your life

The person that will repair this country, where will he begin from?

Congrats, u are one of the few lucky ones

If you decide to write about the negative side of Nigeria! Any language you decide to write it in, shorthand inclusive! It’s still going to be the biggest and most lengthy book in the world! Haba!

Alright. . . . . . .Ajie

Make we thank God say you dey alive first.


Abeg

Didn't read your story, but RIP

Stupidl expensive hotel. Fanta was @ 1500 naira, Grilled Fish 16k circa 2019 at V.I outlet. The place is neat sha.

Thank God for your life!

Careless people using breakable glass and tiles in bathrooms and toilets.

This victim should have sued them demanding hundreds of millions of Naira. May be that will put some sense into them.

Of course we need to hear other side of the story.

See Gobe