Drama ensued in Onitsha, Anambra State when a middle-aged man, Obinna Adimora, a trader at the Onitsha main market was hospitalised for the injuries he sustained after being attacked by an angry cow.

Obinna’s journey to the hospital bed started when occupants of a commercial building at Ben Aghaeze Street contributed and purchased a cow for the Christmas. It was gathered that the Christmas cow was bought at the popular Ugwuoba cattle market near Awka, Anambra State capital at the rate of N120, 000.

Unfortunately, when the butcher was making preparations to slaughter the animal, the angry cow seemingly sensed the fate that was about to befall it; thus it made a loud noise, yanked itself free from the rope with which it was tethered, and descended on the people waiting to share its meat. It went berserk, jumping all over the place. It broke the table placed in front of the building, used its horns to break the windscreen of a car parked close by, even as the people took to their heels. Unluckily for Obinna, he fell while running and the animal descended on him. The intervention of some Hausa (Suya sellers) and security officers in the neighbourhood prevented the ‘mad’ cow from sending Obinna to his early grave. Meanwhile, the madness could not stop the cow from being killed as it was later bundled and slaughtered by the Hausa boys.

I no blame the cow jaré. Even animals appreciate their lives as much as humans, it seems.