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Fatal Accident In Sango Ota Ogun State: 20 Killed As Bribe-Taking Policemen Mount Illegal Checkpoint

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Nov 19, 2015 – Fatal Accident In Sango Ota Ogun State: 20 Killed As Bribe-Taking Policemen Mount Illegal Checkpoint

At least 20 people lost their lives in a multiple accident at the Tollgate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State on Wednesday.

Among the dead were a pregnant woman; a yam seller identified as Iya Nimota whose daughter would be having her wedding on Saturday; five bread sellers; two policemen and motorists.

A trailer reportedly rammed into four commercial buses, three private cars and a police patrol van.

We learnt that the policemen, from the Sango Police Division, had at about 11pm on Tuesday, stopped a bus conveying yams, and insisted on collecting N200 from the driver.

The illegal checkpoint reportedly created a traffic snarl.

Our correspondents gathered that the trailer, from the Lafarge Cement Company, Ewekoro, conveying hundreds of cement bags, had a brake failure, and ran over the line of vehicles, pushing three of them into a canal at the junction.

While the 20 casualties had been taken to the Ota General Hospital morgue, the others were said to be in a critical condition at the state hospital.

A survivor of the accident, Lateefat Olukogun, said they had encountered 10 police checkpoints on the road and bribed the policemen at each checkpoint.

She said when they got to the Oando area of Tollgate, they met another team of policemen, who flagged down their vehicle.

She said, “All we were carrying in our truck were yams and sacks of garri. The police never allowed us to have breathing space as they kept stopping us on the road and collected N200 from us.

“I was the one paying them and I had spent everything I had. I had N100 left on me. I begged the policemen to take the money from us and allow us continue with our journey, but they insisted that we pay the N200.

“The driver then gave his boy N500 and asked him to go and look for change to give the policemen. The guy crossed to the other side of the road to look for change. Few minutes later, he returned and gave them the N200. He had barely paid the money than we heard a loud bang.”

Olukogun said she did not sustain severe injuries because she sat next to the driver

“Iya Nimota was sitting at the back. The trailer crushed her. The driver of the bus, however, got seriously injured and he is in the hospital,” she said.

[Reported By Samson Folarin and Olaleye Aluko, Metro Plus]

13 Comments

13 Comments

  1. Jimoh

    November 19, 2015 at 4:03 AM

    This is really sad

  2. femi

    November 19, 2015 at 5:08 AM

    it is high time for government to stop the excesses of this so called police in the country because they have caused so many tragedy……we are not save in the hand of police and more so they are not our friend …….

  3. femi

    November 19, 2015 at 5:14 AM

    when would all this rubbish from police stop in this country ?You wasted twenty life’s just because of #200.Anyway,it is a pity we don’t have government in this country …otherwise the men in black will not continue to commit a crime and always get away it.

  4. oladipo

    November 19, 2015 at 6:00 AM

    The new IG need to take a drastic step to stop all this illegal check point and extortion from the nigeria citizens.

  5. ishola

    November 19, 2015 at 6:08 AM

    Na dos stupid police coz ham

  6. yusuf

    November 19, 2015 at 8:53 AM

    nigeria police nawa ooooooo upon all this bribe
    u are collecting no any sign of progress in ur life.

  7. Gusar zipporah

    November 19, 2015 at 9:34 AM

    It’s very sad story indeed, may their souls rest in peace

  8. Aisa

    November 19, 2015 at 10:13 AM

    This government is sucking alot of blood. God please save us from untimely death.

  9. BUKOLA

    November 19, 2015 at 10:17 AM

    This would be a lesson to other long throat policemen, what a sad incident.

  10. Glass In The Market Place

    November 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM

    God punish Nigerian Polices! Death plenaty to corrupt ones or their evil will continue.

  11. O'Nels

    November 19, 2015 at 11:02 AM

    This is the reason nigerian police die mysterious death. They are cursed, their families are cursed! Just imagine the pain they have subjected these families to. Criminals! For the departed ones, May their soul rest in the bosom of the almighty.

  12. tunabaross

    November 19, 2015 at 11:09 AM

    Policemen didn’t care with this illegal money. Imagine they wasted the live of nigerians of I don’t care altitude . President should saction the team of policemen involve

  13. Sum1

    December 26, 2015 at 2:14 AM

    na wetin government dey cause b dis. if dey paid well do u tink dey will keep on wit exercise?

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