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Rising Singer, Ifunanya Nwangene Dies From Snake Bite In Abuja At 26 · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of Bandit Lorencia.
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  How are you all doing here? We're doing great.
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  For today's episode, I want to talk about the death of IF Naya
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  Wang Guinea. In a sad development, the
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  Nigerian music community is mourning the tragic death of 25
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  year old Abuja based singer, Iphu Naya Wangene, popularly
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  known as Naya Music who died from a snake bite at her home in
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  the early hours of Saturday. Well, according to reports, the
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  rising star was bitten by a snake at her residence and was
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  rushed to two hospitals in search of treatment.
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  Tragically, no anti venom was available at either facility and
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  she succumbed to the bite. Naya had gained viral fame for
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  her rendition of the UEFA Champions League anthem and had
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  appeared on The Voice Nigeria where she showcased her
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  exceptional vocal talent. While here is a special
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  rendition of soprano singer Sarah Brightman's Time to Say
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  Goodbye. It's time to say goodbye.
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  We have so rest in peace. Well, tributes have poured in
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  across social media with thousands of fans sharing videos
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  of our performances and expressing shock at the sudden
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  loss. The incident has reignited
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  concerns about the lack of anti venom supplies at Nigerian
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  hospitals. Our deepest condolences to the
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  family, friends and fans of Naya Music Also rest in.
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  Peace If Naya is a singer who was based in Abuja.
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  According to the story, she woke up to a sharp pain on her leg
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  and she on or put on the lights and she thought I was a snake.
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  If my according to the story, immediately got into a taxi or
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  an Uber to the hospital, she called a friend to say listen
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  I've been bitten by a snake and I am going to the hospital.
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  So the friend, according to the friend, she was on the phone
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  with the phone even I even I got to the hospital, to a General
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  Hospital in Abuja and they told her they don't have snake anti
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  venom. They directed her to a different
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  hospital which was about 10 minutes away.
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  She got into another taxi or an Uber and the friend said she was
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  still on the phone with you phone iPhone.
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  I was talking because the, the when where she was beating was
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  tied with a clue to stop the venom from you know spreading in
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  her body. She was talking properly.
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  They said she went to the second hospital.
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  They started asking her questions and all that instead
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  of attending to her immediately. After some time, a doctor came
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  and told her they were going to give her drips.
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  They removed the the tie, the clothes that she was used in
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  tying her hands. And she said she felt that she's
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  in good, she's in good, you know, that's a doctor.
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  They told us they were going to give her drips.
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  So she laid down and they removed the the the the clothes
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  that she used in tiny arms. She laid down and the friend
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  said, you know, she started feeling kind of dizzy, probably
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  she thought because of the drip. And then she allowed her to to
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  rest only for her to get a call to say that if nigh had passed.
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  Now this is sad because people pray that let Nigeria not happen
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  to you and people think it's a bad prayer or people are just
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  trying to bash Nigeria or criticise the government.
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  Imagine a whole government hospital not having anti venom.
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  That is crazy. For somebody to die of snake
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  bites in 2026 is mad. It's unacceptable.
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  This is Nigeria, this is there are bushes around, especially in
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  Abuja. People don't live in, in big
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  cities or developed areas because it's expensive.
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  So most times they live in rural areas.
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  They live in, you know, new development areas, which there
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  are bushes around. So there's, there's every
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  possibility. You see snakes, you see
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  scorpions, you see all these things around your, your area.
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  It is not new. Even in Western countries you
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  see snakes because there are bushes around.
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  These are nature for the fact that she went to a hospital, a
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  General Hospital, and I think maybe she did that because she
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  thought there's no way General Hospital will not have anti
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  snake venom. She went there.
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  They don't have they had to to to like just imagine, just
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  imagine you wake up 2026. You've done all you know, you
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  spent all the whole January having New Year resolution
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  mapping plans for the year. You are taking care of yourself.
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  You're eating right, you're exercising you, you're doing
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  everything that you're supposed to do.
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  And then a snake bites you. You, you took yourself to the
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  General Hospital thinking I am OK this like there's no problem.
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  You got disappointed, you went to the second hospital, they had
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  to give you a drip. I don't know, maybe I am not a
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  medical person, but anti venom is not supposed to be an
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  injection. Why is he a drip?
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  I I. I I don't know, let me play a
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  video from a doctor because sometimes it's good to hear from
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  professionals who know exactly what they're saying.
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  I'm sure you've heard a story about the lady who was bitten by
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  a snake and she died, right? And it's a very sad story,
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  especially when you think about it.
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  But what if I tell you it's not the snake that killed her?
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  I mean snakes bite people everywhere, whether you're in
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  the Bush or in the city. India, Australia, other
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  countries, snake bite people everywhere.
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  But they do not die like this. They do not die just because
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  they went to two hospitals 2 not 1-2 separate hospitals and they
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  looked them straight in the eye and told them we do not have
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  anti venom in the country where snakes live in 2026 non 1980 non
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  19702026. And it has happened to somebody
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  who is popular. But think about the other people
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  it has been happening to that did not have anybody to report
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  to. They didn't have any place to go
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  and they they typically just lost their lives.
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  Bright futures cut shorts. And when you think about it, if
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  you even come to the research, Nigeria has a particular anti
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  venom developed for Nigerian snakes.
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  It's called a key tab ECHITEB. The question is why were this?
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  Why was this anti venom not in the fridges of the hospitals
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  that she went to? Simply because we've forgotten
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  the basics. Our politicians are building
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  flyovers where ambulances don't exist.
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  We're focusing on building ultra modern hospitals when the
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  primary healthcare centre, which is the first point of call in
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  any functioning country, should be.
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  But rather than focus on those ones, they would rather want to
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  do a big project. They'll caught Reborn and
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  everybody's going to clap for them simply because they're
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  trying to focus on the next election rather than the lives
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  of the people that they're actually supposed to save.
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  We've forgotten the basics in every primary healthcare centre.
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  The basic small hospital that's beside you should have anti
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  venom in a country where snakes leave.
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  They should have oxygen, they should have people who know what
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  to do. We've been shouting about it.
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  Doctors have been on strike for a while, but it seems nobody's
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  talking about it because, you know, really concern me like
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  that. No, it does.
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  It does. But when doctors go on strike
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  asking for better conditions, better services, even help us do
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  our work better, the same people who are politicians find a way
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  to put the people against the doctors and make the doctors the
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  enemy, rather than the people who are actually supposed to
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  provide this health care for you.
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  We've forgotten the basics. We've forgotten the basics.
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  We're recently on the project where I've been going from state
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  to state. The first one was Gombe.
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  The next one was Inugu. I'll be going to other states in
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  the country and we're going to be shouting Know your PHC, take
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  your phone, go to your PHC and demand it.
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  Most times when we start, oh, some of those projects, there's
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  no health care. They should not passing away.
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  Chop a single first chop before you do health care.
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  Now look at what's happening. This is just anti venom.
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  How about the woman would die from childbirth?
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  You see, see, and this is this is not just village people at
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  work or because I see that some people have already turned the
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  conversation into, oh, it was a spiritual snake.
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  It was this and this was this. And that's why our politicians
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  are lucky people, because they know they won't be spinning a
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  particular story. Everybody will run with it.
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  Nobody's asking why does our auntie, why does our hospitals
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  don't have anti venoms, The money that was budgeted for the
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  Primary Health care centres, Why was he not supposed to do what
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  he was supposed to do? But rather they are saying, oh
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  he's a spiritual snake, he's our neighbour, he's jealous of her.
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  These things, that is how they keep us down.
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  Well, we can do what we want to do.
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  But what I will say is when time comes to actually demand
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  accountability for healthcare, if you hear budget allocation,
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  don't just tune off. Asked us my Primary Health care.
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  We should stop prison audio projects when Primary Health
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  care centres don't even have common paracetamol.
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  Oh, go to the pimp post on my page and look at that.
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  Those are Primary Health care centres that's actually supposed
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  to help people survive. We failed this young lady today.
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  We're failing others. It concerned our law force and
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  that's all I will say. Thank you.
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  This is sad, this is just, this is just sad all round.
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  May her gentle soul rest in peace and May God give the
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  family the fortitude to bear the loss.
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  This is collectively for a nation as Nigeria, the
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  supposedly giant of Africa, to some sit down and kind of think,
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  think about the lives that have been lost on a daily basis.
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  Just because some politicians or some people in high places or
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  people who we have entrusted to do the right thing are not even
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  willing to to, to do the basics. The common basic thing such as
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  having anti venom in a hospital, a General Hospital.
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  We're not even talking about maybe a chemist.
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  We're not talking about a small hospital.
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  If it was a private hospital right now, say, OK, yeah, maybe
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  they, they were out of budget. People are not.
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  Maybe it's a new hospital. This is a General Hospital.
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  Let me know what you think. Do you think that Nigeria is
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  going to get better or do you think that we're just getting
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  worse by the day? For a, for a, a, a grown adult,
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  for somebody who took herself to the hospital to die because a
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  hospital does not have anti venom.
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  We have failed. We failed the Funaya.
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  Let us sink in. Thank you very much for watching
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  today's episode. Please like, like, like and
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  watching. Bye Bye.