A Nigerian man has left his family members in deep sorrow after he suddenly died inside a bus in the US.
Tunde Adepegba
A Nigerian man, identified as Tunde Adepegba has suffered a suspected heart attack while inside a metro bus in Annapolis area of Maryland and died with no help until the bus driver got to a final stop and came for him.
This was revealed by the dead man's wife, Oluwayemisi Adepegba who is seven-months pregnant and a mother-of-two. Her husband Tunde, a computer systems analyst, passed away in the US on Wednesday, April 26. Adepegba, who has two daughters aged two and eight, arrived in the US just two weeks back and had barely spent 12 hours with her husband when he was picked up dead inside a metro bus.
The woman is now saddled with the task of burying her husband which will cost her not less than $10,000. She's begging people to help her after opening a gofundme account for the husband.
Writing about the sad incident, a deputy editor with THISDAY newspaper, Olawale Olaleye wrote on Facebook: “This is no good news but a time I need the Nigerian in us to act true to type. Sadly, he left behind a pregnant wife. It is such a pathetic situation. But we can’t go on and on brooding over what we can’t change. This is an appeal for his burial, which is a bit expensive in the U.S and of course, whatever is left of this will be given to the pregnant wife."
Also writing, another editor and columnist with THISDAY newspaper, Adeola Akinremi, who is currently in the US is quoted as saying: “It is a sad story you won’t even wish for your enemy. Everything around the woman and the children has collapsed. They can only live on charity for now and everyone with a good heart must rise up. The gofundme.com is probably the first place to start, but you can also reach out to the woman directly.”
Adepegba is currently in Randallstown, Maryland, United States, where a Good Samaritan is accommodating her and the children for the period of the burial.