DANA PLANE CRASH: West Hartford Mourn The Anyenes

Collins Anyene and 3 of his Children

My heart breaks when I see this picture, those kids full of life ! so much to look forward to.....since the Dana Plane Crash on Sunday, I have seen so many tributes from those left behind and it has hit me so badly. As I stare at the numerous pictures it dawns on me ....This is the human face.....and the apparent price paid for greed!
I saw this article from the The News Telegram which really hit me hard! These people left the lives they had to come home, and due to apparent negligence on so many levels they lost their lives with 147 others.

How do we fix this? We cant bring any of these people back. The perception of Nigeria is bleak alot of the people onboard were Nigerians in diaspora coming to the country for one thing or another. Infact I was told one of the victims was a lady who was in the process of relocating from the UK to start a business in Nigeria.

If this was an unavoidable accident then we must bear the loss and realise that these things happen. But if this was an avoidable accident caused by negligence and greed, then for the sake of these innocent victims it needs to be investigated and all those involved must be dealt with.


The News Telegram

Stuffed animals, flowers, candles and cards left by stunned neighbours and friends lay Tuesday in front of the West Hartford home of a family of six killed in an airline crash in Nigeria.

Sunday’s crash five miles from Lagos’ international airport killed all 153 people aboard including Maimuna Anyene of West Hartford, her husband, Onyeke, and their four children including 1-year-old twins, a 5-month-old and a 3-year-old. An untold number of people on the ground also died.

“It’s probably one of the most tragic things I’ve heard of in my life,” said Cynthia Elis, a neighbour of the family whose young daughter played with the Anyene children. “She was a beautiful person with four beautiful babies, and they’re never going to get to grow up.”

About 50 people in the relatively new neighborhood of town house condominiums gathered for a vigil Monday night and left items for a memorial on the family’s front step. Neighbors said Tuesday that they were having trouble coming to terms with the tragedy.

“Rest in peace with your four precious babies,” read one card. “Your family will be in our hearts forever.”

Several news reports said the Anyenes were returning from a wedding when the plane crashed. The cause is under investigation.

Maimuna Anyene, who earned a master’s degree at Penn State, was a human relations manager at United Technologies Corp. and had worked for the Hartford-based conglomerate for more than four years, the company said in a statement.

Onyeke Anyene was a lawyer who lived most of the time in Nigeria and had law offices there, according to a report by the Nigerian news website Sahara Reporters.

The couple had four children: 1-year-old twins Kaima and Kaiyen, 5-month-old Noah and 3-year-old Kamsi, the children’s godmother, Mari Sifo, told The Hartford Courant.

The Anyenes lived in an upscale development of attached town houses in the Elmwood section of town, not too far from Interstate 84 a few miles west of Hartford.

Source The News Telegram