Shittu Taiwo was born and raised in Kogi state 37 years ago. He was a tanker driver who sadly had his dream of becoming a successful businessman shattered when he was on December 26 2015 almost electrocuted by a live high-tension wire while performing his daily duty. Pathetic enough, on this fateful sad day when the tragic incidence occurred was his first day in service for a popular Ilorin-based petroleum transporter who is fondly called Alhaji Mufty of Mufty transport.
Unfortunately enough, it was my first trip I had embarked on while working with my then boss and I was been paid 25 000 naira as salary,” Taiwo lamented while speaking with the press. Taiwo narrated his sorrowful ordeal when he revealed the redoubtable moment he was caught between live high-tension wires when he said: “I never knew there were high-tension wires overhead when I mounted the tanker and on getting to the tanker top, labelling the figures I wanted to convey, the high-tension wires suddenly sparked and dropped on my head and neck and that was the last thing I could recall. I spent three days at the hospital before I could regain my consciousness.