Hearing the moving story of Isiuwe Daniel Isiwoso, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member currently serving at the State House would move the stone-hearted to pity. At 14 years, by either fate or design, his collision with a man leaving the Mosque after Jumat prayer led to his blindness and it almost ruined his lofty ambitions.
Thinking that life had lost its true meaning and at the verge of committing suicide after wasting excruciating six years at home without a solution to blindness, succour finally came his way. According to him, the journey to surmount odds had started after the six years when he got the opportunity to embrace Braille education that saw him through from secondary school to higher education at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)
However, recalling how he embarked on that journey to carving a niche, he revealed that he passed through many tough and challenging situations including the pain and difficulty of depending on his classmates to record lectures, recalling that many people even had to avoid him like plague.
Today, he announces triumphantly, that he has cast all that behind him especially after wedding a lady of his dreams on February 1 in Abuja. His spouse equally graduated from the same institution. The union, he noted dried the tears of his mother, who still could not believe that her first son is blind.
All things work together for our good …