Losing 2 Daughters Most Traumatic Experience Of My Life — Grieving Father

A   father   who   lost   two   full  grown  up  children  in  the  DANA  air  crash, by  name   Mr.  Solomon  Onita  told Newsmen that ,   this    is    the  most  traumatic  experience  in  his  life.

“How  can  this  happen  to  me  ,  that  a  Pastor  serving  God   would   suffer  this  kind   of  fate, losing  2  full  grown  daughters   in  one  day  just  like  that,  I  feel  exactly  how  Job  in  the  Bible  felt,”  he  lamented.

Onita  who  disclosed  that  he   reliably  learnt  that   8     US- based  citizens  died  in  that  ill  fated  air  crash  pointed  out   that  he   flew in  from  USA  on  Monday  to  see  the  remains   of  his   daughters  whom  he  called “Angels”.

According    to   Pastor  Onita,   who   spoke   with  Newsmen  at  the  Lagos  University  Teaching  Hospital (LASUTH)   where   he  had gone  to  identify  the  corpses   of    his   daughters,    Josephine Onita    and    Jennifer Onita  of  Missouri City,   Texas    who   were   killed in the crash   as  they   came   to  attend   a wedding in Lagos, said the daughters were   very  closely  soul- tie  sisters,  who were wonderful  daughters of Pastor Solomon and Lola Onita, pastors at a Missouri City congregation of the Nigerian-based Redeemed Christian Church of God.

“Josephine always made people laugh and   Jennifer is  ever  so   sweet . They   were  angels” the  father  lamented.

The failed plane pilot, Newsmen gathered was a U.S. citizen. Also on board the plane were seven other U.S. citizens (the  late  Onita’s  daughters  included).

The  father  disclosed  that  Jennifer Onita, 28, was a Bio-Medical Engineering student at the University of Houston Graduate School. “Jennifer was an accomplished Engineer with concentrations in both Aeronautics and Defense.”

“And   my   other   daughter,  Josephine, 23, was an   accomplished  accountancy manager for the family business”.

Pastor  Onita   lamented   that  he   learnt   the American pilot  of   the  ill  fated  plane  sent a radio message that the plane was having trouble minutes before it crash landed  and  he  had  declared an  emergency as the plane approached the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,  “  so  why  was   this  crash   not  averted?”  he  asked   no  one  in  particular?

Dana Air’s director of operations, Oscar Wason, identified the American pilot as   Mr Peter Waxtan   and   that   he was a veteran of the Miramar-based Spirit Airlines from 1997 to 2009.

Meanwhile,  a    condolence website has been opened for   the   entire   family of ten that was wiped out in the crash.
Titled: “Memories of Maimuna and Onyeka Anyene”, the web page contains pictures and loving memories of the family and is tagged as: Maimuna and Onyeka Forever; Maimuna’s Memory; Their Lives In Pictures; Condolences; Burial Arrangements; Fondest Memories;   and News.

The web disclosed through a relative   that  ,  “They (the couple) fought for their courtship, fought for their marriage and the love they conjured up from their dogged togetherness created such beauty, such peace and such joy around them. Their love blessed them abundantly and they blessed so many  others  with love why  did  they  have  to  die   like   this?”