Tears flowed freely at the Erifun, Ado Ekiti residence of 52-year-old Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ojo Ayeni, crushed to death on a motorbike along Ado–Ijan Road in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Tuesday by a van of the Rapid Response Squad of the Nigeria Police.
Teary-eyed widow of the late ASP, Angela, who remained inconsolable since the incident occurred, said perhaps her husband could have been rescued if the policemen after causing the accident immediately took him to a hospital for medical assistance and prevented him from losing much blood following which he died.
She also raised the alarm over her husband’s phone, saying, “We have not recovered my husband’s phone and it has since been switched off. The phone was in his pocket when he left my shop. One of the people who carried the body into the van must have taken his phone.” “When I got to the police clinic, it was his lifeless body I saw at the back of the van. There was blood everywhere. I went there, cried, prayed, attempted to wake him and held the lifeless body to myself. Later, they said they would take him to the mortuary. I said I would do that, but they said no. I followed them to mortuary.’’
She said, “That Tuesday, when we finished our morning prayers, he said he remembered that he had a terrible dream where he saw himself digging heaps. I told him that it was a bad sign because whenever he had such a dream, he would be called from his town that somebody had died. I was worried and wondered aloud who would have to die in his town again. He said he would know the following day and we prayed to avert evil.
Monday, who corroborated his brother’s wife that he learnt that the RRS operatives parked at a point to argue instead of rushing the accident victim to hospital, added, “One curious thing was that ABUAD Hospital is close to the accident scene, but they still took him to faraway police clinic. But this is a police matter and they know how they do their things. But I am sure it would have been another thing entirely if it had been a civilian that caused something like this.
“This is a students’ area. The moment this man is no more, this place should be policed and the cops should see that the family is secure. They should try their best to make sure that they assist this family.’’
What a pity....God grace and mercy wasn't enough for him. May the grace and mercy of the Lord Almighty never elude us at the very point of need.
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