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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