‘The last time I saw my sister’

IT was an emotional moment yesterday when Brenda Tiki spoke of her sister who died in an accident at Nasuapum village, outside Lae, on Saturday morning.
Trying to compose herself, Tiki said her sister, Vivian Waremu, was posted to teach in Komba LLG, of Kabwum district, this year.
She had graduated from Balob Teachers’ College in Lae five years ago.
She said Waremu, her husband and their two children aged one and four, plus their babysitter were in Lae to spend their holidays and to attend the graduation of her younger sister at Balob Teachers’ College.
“Last Friday the family went out to do their shopping to travel the next day to Kabwum and that was the last time I saw my sister and her family,” she said.
Waremu, her husband, their two children and the babysitter all died in the accident involving a Toyota Land Cruiser and a PMV bus.
Waremu was married to a man from Kabwum and who was also a teacher. Tiki said that since her sister’s graduation from Balob Teachers’ College, she has never returned to her people and family to assist them and her brothers at home have not seen her until she died last Saturday.
“The hands that had worked and paid for that young woman’s school fees have never seen any return from her to say thank you and now we will only see her back in a coffin,” elder sister Tiki lamented.
“We are now mourning the death of these loved ones and we want the authorities responsible to do something positive to make us feel a bit happy.”
She said the whole family was lost and that was heartbreaking for Waremu’s family.