Road Accident Claims 4 Officers in Lagos …Exposes LASUTH Inefficiency

Matilda Omonaiye|

The police in Lagos have told how they lost four officers in a road accident that has further exposed the state of the country’s emergency health services.

According to the police, one of the officers died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) because there was no oxygen.

Police spokesman, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, said the officers, who were attached to the X-Squad Unit, died on Sunday.

Newsmakersng learnt that three policemen and a woman-sergeant were crushed to death by a truck after their patrol vehicle had an accident along Agbowa Road in Ikorodu, Lagos.

The police team was out to arrest suspected fake policemen operating in the area.

They were heading back to the state headquarters in Ikeja, when a truck lost control and rammed into their patrol vehicle, which had skidded off the road and fell into a ditch.

Three policemen were killed on the spot, while the fourth officer died at the hospital.

The victims were identified as Inspector Donatus Igwe, the driver of the patrol vehicle; Inspector Segun Ajibade, Woman-Sergeant Blessing Umoru, and Sergeant Idowu Ibidapo, who died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Ikeja, because he was not given oxygen on time.

Doctors at the hospital said they were short of oxygen.

The team leader, identified as ASP Tola, survived the accident.

The police loss on Ikorodu Road came barely one year after a Corporal identified as Elle was killed in an accident by a hit and run vehicle on the road.

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