Ibilola Essien, an associate at SimmonsCooper Partners, disclosed that she and her younger brother had witnessed the heartbreaking 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.
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