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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