From SaharaReporters…
A reckless police driver behind
the wheels of a van attached to the Festac police station has been accused of
hitting a woman and her baby, causing brain damage in the nursing mother.
Several sources related to the
woman reported that the accident happened on June 23, 2013 as the police driver
sped dangerously against the flow of traffic on a one-way lane along the busy
Oshodi-Apapa Road, hitting down the unsuspecting woman and her baby.
An eyewitness said the police
corporal seemed to act with drunken disregard for other road users. “As he was
driving, he was waving his hand and shouting at drivers who were driving the
right way to clear out of the road,” the witness said. “He kept driving that
way until he eventually knocked down the woman coming out of the bus with her
baby.” Family sources said the badly injured woman and her baby were rushed to
the emergency ward at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Doctors
reportedly discovered that she had sustained a pelvic fracture, facial bruises,
and brain injury. The baby, Ammarah Anjolaiya, also suffered deep facial cuts
and a broken jaw.
A family source said Corporal
Friday’s first concern at the scene of the accident was to immediately arrange
a cab to convey the “madam” in his car to her destination. He later provided
the injured woman’s family with N70,000 for treatment. The source said the
culprit subsequently abandoned the victims of his reckless driving at the hospital.
“We have so far spent above N500,000 on treatment and upkeep,” said the source.
Another family source told SaharaReporters that the victim’s husband, Sulaiman
Anjolaiya, had been unemployed for several months. “His wife was the bread
winner of the family and now she is down with mental and physical injuries due
to the behavior of this police corporal who has now abandoned them to the fate
he inflicted on the family,” she said.
Our sources disclosed that the
family of the victim had a shocking experience when they visited the FESTAC
divisional police station to meet with the Divisional Police Officer, Ibrahim
Zango, whose mistress was being taken to the airport at the time of the
accident. “DPO Zango spoke to us in a very rude manner before offering us additional
ten thousand naira,” said one of the victim’s relatives. He added that the DPO
said the woman being driven by the reckless police driver was “just a
relative.”
Mrs. Taskirat Anjolaiya is
currently receiving treatment at LUTH for her physical and mental injuries.
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