A reckless police driver behind the wheels of a van
attached to the FESTAC police station has been
accused of hitting a woman and her baby, causing
brain damage in the nursing mother.
Several sources related to the woman told
SaharaReporters that the accident happened on June
23, 2013 as the police driver sped dangerously
against the flow of traffic on a one-way lane along the
busy Oshodi-Apapa Road, hitting down the
unsuspecting woman and her baby.
“The accident was avoidable, and could have been
avoided if the police man obeyed simple traffic
regulation that marked the road as one-way,” said a
relative of the injured woman. “Now, the action of this
[police] man has resulted in serious brain injury to the
mother.”
The source revealed that the accident happened at
Church bus stop along the Oshodi-Apapa express
road. An eyewitness said the victim, Taskirat
Anjolaiya, was alighting from a public bus with her
child and had not noticed the furious police van
coming from the wrong traffic direction towards her.
One of the victim’s relatives disclosed that the driver
of the police van, identified as Corporal Friday, told
their family that he was driving his boss’s mistress to
the airport, apparently to catch a flight, and had to
maneuver through traffic to get his passenger quickly
to her destination. An eyewitness said the police
corporal seemed to act with drunken disregard for
other road users. “As he was driving, he was waving
his hand and shouting at drivers who were driving the
right way to clear out of the road,” the witness told
SaharaReporters. “He kept driving that way until he
eventually knocked down the woman coming out of
the bus with her baby.”
Family sources said the badly injured woman and her
baby were rushed to the emergency ward at the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Doctors
reportedly discovered that she had sustained a pelvic
fracture, facial bruises, and brain injury. The baby,
Ammarah Anjolaiya, also suffered deep facial cuts and
a broken jaw.
A family source said Corporal Friday’s first concern at
the scene of the accident was to immediately arrange
a cab to convey the “madam” in his car to her
destination. He later provided the injured woman’s
family with N70,000 for treatment. The source said
the culprit subsequently abandoned the victims of his
reckless driving at the hospital. “We have so far spent
above N500,000 on treatment and upkeep,” said the
source.
Another family source told SaharaReporters that the
victim’s husband, Sulaiman Anjolaiya, had been
unemployed for several months. “His wife was the
bread winner of the family and now she is down with
mental and physical injuries due to the behavior of
this police corporal who has now abandoned them to
the fate he inflicted on the family,” she said.
Our sources disclosed that the family of the victim had
a shocking experience when they visited the FESTAC
divisional police station to meet with the Divisional
Police Officer, Ibrahim Zango, whose mistress was
being taken to the airport at the time of the accident.
“DPO Zango spoke to us in a very rude manner before
offering us additional ten thousand naira,” said one of
the victim’s relatives. He added that the DPO said the
woman being driven by the reckless police driver was
“just a relative.”
Mrs. Taskirat Anjolaiya is currently receiving
treatment at LUTH for her physical and mental
injuries.

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