On
Tuesday, December 9, 2015 policemen, LATSMA men, security officials ignored a severely
wounded and unconscious Lagos citizen on the Third Mainland Bridge.
Ibilola
Essien, an associate at Simmons Cooper Partners, disclosed that she and her
younger brother had witnessed the heart-breaking nonchalant attitude of
security personnel to the protection of lives on their way to church,
explaining that they had initially thought the man, who was lying in the middle
of the road, was dead.
In a
Facebook post, she wrote: “But as our car drove by, I noticed he was still
breathing. We stopped immediately.”
She
informed further that since she was afraid of taking the victim to the hospital
for fear of being accused of committing a crime, she directed traffic away from
the man who was later moved to the pavement, while her brother went in search
of an ambulance.
Essien in
her post also informed that four military men passed by on motorcycles, pausing
only to shake their head in pity and muttering “Eeeyah” before moving on and
even the team of policemen that passed by in a van with sirens blaring
afterwards did not stop either.
She said:
“A LASTMA official on a bike stopped. He didn’t have a vehicle so he called his
bosses who told them they were not coming. I was stunned.”
The last
straw for her came when a policeman driving one of the new vehicles donated to
the police by the Lagos state governor, Akinwumi Ambode, stopped, but was
instructed by his bosses, whom he reportedly called, that the car was not to be
stained with blood.
“We
eventually stopped the ambulance of the Gbagada General Hospital and the driver
agreed to carry the man only if the police escorted him.
“I felt
it was wrong because wheelbarrow pusher, lawyers or doctor, everybody deserves
immediate attention. It was just a very disgusting situation,” she said.
Punch
Poor man
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