Youths in Ibi-Ade in Ogun Waterside council area on Thursday took to the streets in protest against police officers they said were responsible for the death on Wednesday night of a pregnant woman whom officers enforcing Covid-19 lockdown delayed from giving birth.

The youths threatened to burn down the divisional police headquarters in the town. The woman, yet unidentified, was due for childbirth but police officers enforcing lockdown at a checkpoint stopped the motorcycle conveying her to hospital. A witness said the woman was already bleeding but her ride was delayed for hours before the officers allowed the motorcyclist to continue.

She died shortly after arriving hospital from suspected blood loss, sparking outrage among the community’s youths. The traditional ruler, Alarege of Ibi-Ade, Oba Kola Rahimi and some eminent personalities in the community helped pacify the youths. A youth in the community, Festus Ogun, said, “The true situation is that, the woman was in labour and she was already bleeding profusely and being taken to the hospital. “On the way to the hospital, the motorcycle carrying her was stopped by officers of the Nigeria Police Force, she was delayed for hours and it was that delay that led to her death.”

The spokesman of the Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident, but absolved police officers of culpability in the woman’s death. “The officers stopped them and asked questions; they said that the woman is bleeding, so the officers asked them to go to the hospital. About 10 or 15 minutes later, the woman died during labour. Maybe she had lost a lot of blood before they decide to take her to the hospital. ” She hasn’t even given birth before she died.

So, those people came back and said that the policemen that stopped them at the checkpoint delayed them from getting to the hospital earlier, saying that they killed her. How is that possible?”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/death-of-pregnant-woman-stopped-by-lockdown-police-sparks-outrage-in-ogun.html

It's very painful .....our security personnel need to be a bit more sensitive.

Hmmmm NIGERIA what have we done to deserve all this God

This is the nigeria some people fought to keep ...
Very shameful...

What was she doing on a bike to start with...
She would have dialed 911.. And an ambulance will be at her doorstep in 3 minutes... Or maybe a chopper to fly her to hospital...

Oh.... Its the shithole
Where killers are paid to stop killing
And those being killed are proscribed... And python dances on their soil amidst the corodile smiles...

This is the Nigeria some fools fought to keep...
Shame...

namqul:
Hmmmm NIGERIA what have we done to deserve all this God

Nigeria did you no wrong....
She gave you mineral resources to sustain your existence in abundance...

Yet every four years...
You queue up under hot sun to hand her over to useless wicked incompetent illiterate tribalistic moronic religious bigot and corrupt old fools...

Oh... I forgot
We are now in the era of bullion vans on the eve of elections...
Reap what you sowed...

Why is a woman in labour on motorcycle

This Naija police na wa for them! They still wanted to collect kola from a pregnant woman before they allow her go to the hospital?

MetaPhysical:
Why is a woman in labour on motorcycle

If you ask me, who ah go ask brother

Nigeria police duty include civil responsibility as well . What stops them from taking a dying woman to the hospital with their stop and search vehicle or is securing lives not their major responsibility anymore? IGP, please take note. I hope the forgiven Boko Haram terrorists have not join the Nigeria police?