It was a pitiable sight on Saturday morning in the university town of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, as residents of the agrarian community trooped out to loot a trailer load of bags of rice which knocked down a man on a commercial motorcycle popularly called ‘okada’.

In the video of the incident which has gone viral in Edo State, the male passenger, who was the victim of the accident, was seen wrapped in a cladding cloth on the ground, while the residents were busy looting the trailer of its consignment.

The accident, Nigerian Tribune gathered, happened at Okpoji Junction in Ekpoma.
While the looting lasted, nobody paid attention to the lifeless body of the man, as the community members helped themselves with the bags of rice which the trailer was conveying to the yet-to-be-ascertained destination.

In the two minutes 38 seconds video, the voice narrator could be heard lamenting that the trailer had just killed “a woman.”

“This trailer just killed one woman, you can see the woman on the ground; on the floor. This is very close to Okpoji Junction”, the narrator said.

The victim was actually a man as revealed when the cloth in which he was wrapped was removed.

Another narrator in the video lamented: “Nobody actually cares who is dead. What we are after is the rice. You can see them. Somebody is even on the ground, nobody cares, but what they are after is the rice.”

Sanity, however, returned when some men arrived the scene and stopped the looting of the trailer which was almost empty then.

The men were later joined by some youths carrying planks, who formed a ring round the trailer, while one of the men was seen pointing at the lifeless body of the man on the ground. 

The motorcycle on which he rode to death was a short distance from the corpse.

When contacted, with the video of the accident and looting sent, Edo State Police Command confirmed the incident.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ekpoma-residents-abandon-accident-victim-loot-trailer-load-of-rice/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59tT0TeUtqA

wonderful

Happens

All these politicians are learners when it comes to some Nigeria's wickedness

all is well... With the way we are going in this country them go dey loot people Kidney nd organs for street

Nigeria is shit hole

why are humans selfish

This is disheartening...

Kai! We need to sit down and rethink about Nigeria.. we just need total format and reboot

The country is filled with animals.

Every opportunity is an Avenue to loot people properties and businesses.

Illiterates poor people are the worst set of people in this world.

Now stealing is more important than human life.

And these are the people that want good governance.

No wonder they never take responsibility for anything, from morning to night is to abuse Buhari.

This country can never develop with this set of savages in the land.

southniyikaye:
All these politicians are learners when it comes to some Nigeria's wickedness

What do you expect when political leaders are wicked. Followers are just following their footsteps. If a parent is a thief , expect the child to be an armed robber.

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This is deeply sad

Despicable

You see, all those idiots that will say politician are our problem will still blame buhari for this one...
at least armies shot down people and take their bodies to the cemetery, but see people abandon someone to die just to loot rice....what a shame

let me hear any idiot blame the government for their useless ass lazy for not predicament...

why now

Nigerians are viciously wicked

They complain about evil leaders forgetting that the leaders are a reflection of the people

No they are IPOB youths looting,........Imbe....Wike

This country sha, when are going to be our brothers keeper... ...

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Edo state own now don become u controllable

Typical We We

Love is going into Extinction.

Nigeria have finally become a jungle. Survival of the fittest.

Wouldn't you show little kindness to a dying soul before stealing his belongings?

Shame

Am not surprised

Gees! What has happened to humanity?


This is no longer poverty but pure wickedness.

Very bad

This country is gone.. I weep for Naija

See what politicians have made out of the lives of Nigerians

lol...but femi addsina said there's no hunger in the country

Hmmm