Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Nigerian among victims of California shooting

Doris
The police in California, United States, yesterday identified a Nigerian, Doris Chibuko, an indigene of Enugu state, as one of the victims of the Oakland shooting that killed seven students of a Christian university in the city of Oakland.
Chibuko, 40, and a mother of three, worked as a lawyer in Nigeria before migrating to the United States in 2002 after marrying a fellow Nigerian,  who is based in the state of California.
"She was a very happy person, very caring, very loving," said husband of the diseased, a technician at AT&T.
"She liked to spend time with her family. Right now I'm just trying to grieve."
Husband
Doris met her husband whose name was given as Efanye Chibuko while at the university and they got married in 2002. That same year, the couple immigrated to the United States, where they had three children, who are now ages 3, 5, and 8.
Doris, who worked part time at Villa Fairmont Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in San Leandro, was two months away from graduating with a degree in nursing before the gunman killed her and six others in Oikos University  in what has been described as one of the worst school shooting incidents in California.


8 comments:

Nneka said...

I have always been opposed to everybody have access to gun. There are very many mad people in the US, and many more go mad every day. This is very painful

Anonymous said...

The American people should start asking themselves if owning a gun has done more harm than good to them.What a tragidy!!!

Fortune Ulu said...

The liberty to own a gun should not be liberty to indiscriminate shooting and killing of people. Several people, old and young, men and women, and children have been lost to these acts of mindless shooting in the US. The various state governments should re-assess and re-examine the provisions of their firearm laws. This will spare us from unnecessary grieving.

Priye said...

Would educated Nigerians be subjecting themselves to this re-orientation if things were normal back home. I bet this lawyer is training to become a nurse not for love of the profession but just for survival in a strange land.

Joyce said...

Well said Priye. For as long as our govt continue to make corruption Nigeria's official policy for so long will Nigerians continue to suffer unthinkable fates just for survival.

Yusuf said...

Very sad story. A most painful death.

ifeoma blessing okafor said...

Doris, may your gentle soul rest in the bosom of our Lord Jesus, Amen. Pls, Nigerian government make Nigeria inhabitable & comfortable so that we will not have any reason to migrate. Now, Doris children are now motherless children in a pitiable state. Pls Nigerian govt help us oooo.

Funmi Fuming said...

Sister, yours is a very painful death. I wept when I saw the incidence on tv. RIP and may the Good Lord comfort your family, particularly your old mother and those precious young ones.