While
Ekiti state is still in mourning mood following Sunday's death of six
doctors and a driver in a road mishap, a new revelation has emerged of
the attitude of Nigerian Police towards the dead doctors.
Scene of the accident that claimed the lives of 6 medical doctors and a driver
We reported it here some
days ago that Ekiti state is in mourning following Sunday’s tragic
death of six doctors and a driver in a fatal car accident few kilometres
to Kaduna on their way to Sokoto for a medical mission organised by the
Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
We also reported on Tuesday that
the Kaduna state sector command of the Federal Road Safety Corps
(FRSC), Salisu Galadunci, attributed the accident to over-speeding.
However, after hearing that comment, one of the six survivors of
the accident, on Wednesday, denied that the driver over-sped, saying
that no FRSC official could have given an accurate picture of the
accident, as they arrived 40 minutes late.
In a message he posted in a Whatsapp group for doctors, Dr.
Ekundare Folu, chairman of National Association of Government and
General Medical and Dental Practitioners in Ekiti, said policemen at the
scene of the accident refused to move the corpses of the six doctors
who died, demanding to be paid N4,000.
He said that the officers, in fact, did not budge when he
personally offered them N3,000 and only accepted to evacuate the corpses
after another doctor added N1,500.
Below is his post in full;
"The comment credited to the Sector Head of Operations, Deputy
Corps Commander, Salisu Galadunci, of the FRSC is very unfortunate.
This is an FRSC that got to scene of the accident more than 40minutes after the accident. This
is an FRSC that were reluctant take us to the hospital claiming they
don’t have fuel and didn’t budge until one of the injured promised to
buy fuel for them.
The Deputy Corps Commander was not at the scene of the accident. Neither himself nor any representative of his spoke to any of the people in the vehicle, 6 of whom myself included survived.
The Deputy Corps Commander did not even see the vehicle either at the scene of the accident or at the police station.
How he jumped to that conclusion is beyond me. The comments is
an insult to my dead colleagues and a slap on those of us that survived.
For his information this is not a driver we picked off the road
to take us for the journey. This is a man that has been working with us
for more than 4 years. He is indirectly telling the world that a bus of
12 doctors including several senior consultants could not control a
driver we employed and pay salaries to.
I was in the same vehicle sitting in the row behind the driver
and I checked the speedometer from time to time. The bus also makes a
beeping sound once the speed exceeds 110km/hr. Let me state
categorically that the bus driver was not speeding.
The FRSC are probably only trying to justify their intention to
sell their speed limiting device to Nigerians hence associating every
possible accident to excessive speeding. And it is sad that they would
even attempt to use such a sad event to do such.
Even the police would not convey the bodies to the mortuary in
their van until we parted with 4000naira. I personally dropped 3000naira
but the police officer rejected it, dropping the money on their vehicle
until the NMA chairman Dr Akinbote added 1500naira.
The second police vehicle that conveyed those of us unhurt and
our luggage to join the others to the hospital also had to be topped
with 3500naira black market fuel paid for by me.
Gov Ayodele Fayose. God bless you for your care and support.
Special thanks to the senator representing doka LG in kaduna for deeming it fit to visit us in the hospital.
The NMA kaduna was also wonderful. Thank you so much. Cmd
neuropsychiatric hospital God bless you. All others who helped, assisted
or visited us in kaduna thank you.
Dr. Ekundare Folu
Naggmdp Chairman Ekiti State."
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