NAN losses staff to accident involving Gwagwalada Divisional Police Officer

NAN losses staff to accident involving Gwagwalada Divisional Police Officer

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By Monday Ijeh
Abuja, March 19, 2020 (NAN) News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has lost one of its technical staff, Mr Peter Onyeke to an accident involving the Gwagwalada Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Wilson Dankwano.

Mr Uchechukwu Onyeke, a younger brother to the diseased told NAN on Thursday in Abuja that the incident occurred at about 8.p.m on Sunday along Apo-Kabusa road.

He said his family was informed of the accident by a passerby, who saw his brother lying helplessly in his car, used his phone to call them.

He explained that two cars were involved in the accident, Toyota Tundra belonging to the DPO and that of his brother, Golf three were at the scene at the time family members arrived.

He alleged that the accident was a head on collision, adding that the signs and evidence available showed that the DPO left his lane to hit his brother.

Onyeke said sign of efforts made by his brother to hold his brake while the Toyota Tundra was coming to his lane was on the ground at the scene.

He said the DPO and the girl in his car at the time of the accident were immediately rushed to the hospital by police officers attached to Apo Motor Traffic Division (MTD).

According to him, his brother was on his way to Apo from Kabusa to pick his children from the sister’s house before the accident occurred.

“From the signs on the ground, my brother made efforts to hold his brake at the time the DPO came to his lane on a high speed before the collision,” he said.

In his reaction, the Commissioner of Police (CP), Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Bala Ciroma, said it was a private Golf car that took the DPO and the other victim to the Police Station.

He said the argument that his men rushed the DPO and the girl in his car to hospital, leaving the other victim helpless was not the true situation.

Ciroma said the owner of the Golf car got to the scene of the accident, took the DPO and the girl to the station with a view to alert the police of the accident.

He said the idea was for the police to mobilise and go back to rescue the third victim.

The CP said before the arrival of the police team at the scene, the family members of the victims had been alerted and had taken him to the hospital.

He blamed the argument on communication gap between the family and the police, adding that the police would never have rushed some victims to hospital, leaving others helpless.

He pledged to ensure diligent investigation into the matter, adding that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the command would take over the investigation immediately. 

“Our principle in road traffic accident is that when a life is lost in an accident that involved two drivers, we assume that the one alive is at fault and we so charge him to court or get a neutral party to investigate the case.

“If there is no enough evidence to prosecute the case, because there are instances where it is the dead that is at fault and there are also instances where it is the living that is at fault.

‘If we get evidence against the living, he will be held accountable for the death of other victims,” he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Ajide