By SaharaReporters, New York
The killing of a female community leader by a trailer in
Abule-Egba in Lagos on November 13 has been linked
to the convoy of the First Lady of Kwara State,
Omolewa Ahmed.
The community leader, Victoria Adeoye, 63, was killed
when a tipper-trailer ploughed into bystanders as it tried
to avoid a head-on collision with Mrs. Ahmed’s convoy,
which was driving on the wrong side of the road.
Unconcerned, Mrs. Ahmed and her convoy of about
seven cars abandoned the accident victims and sped on
towards Abeokuta. The Kwara First Lady was on her
way from visiting popular Fuji musician, Kollington
Ayinla, who was receiving treatment at Hamkad Hospital
for an undisclosed ailment.
Eyewitnesses say the accident occurred when the fourth
vehicle in the convoy was exiting the small road leading
to the hospital. Mrs. Adeoye and a roadside ice cream
seller were killed.
In order to cover up the cause of the accident,
authorities at Hamkad Hospital gagged their workers
from disclosing their VIP guest, and swiftly moved Alhaji
Ayinla to another hospital.
Mrs. Adeola’s son, Olusegun Adeoye, an Abuja-based
medical doctor, told SaharaReporters that Hamkad has
refused to disclose the killers of his mother.
SaharaReporters however learnt from people in the area
that although the plate numbers of the vehicles were
covered, policemen in Mrs. Ahmed’s convoy had freely
chatted with people in the area and disclosed they were
from Kwara State.
SaharaReporters approached Dr. Femi Akorede, a
spokesperson to the Kwara State governor, who
admitted that the convoy at the hospital was that of the
Kwara State First lady. However, he vehemently denied
that the convoy caused the tragic accident, claiming
instead that the brakes of the tipper-trailer failed and
endangered the First Lady’s convoy.
It is unclear how he obtained those details since he
was not on Mrs. Ahmed’s detail.
Asked why the First Lady’s convoy did not at least stop
to assist the victims of the accident they witnessed even
on compassionate grounds, he said she was only made
aware of it after she returned to Ilorin, the state capital.
Eyewitnesses however, contradicted Akorede’s account,
insisting that the accident happened as the convoy
harassed motorists on the highway, causing the trailer
to careen off the highway and then slam into several
people, including Mrs. Adeoye who was at the bus stop
on her way to Oshodi.
The Lagos State police also tried to cover up the cause
of the accident by trying to use force to move the
vehicles, until a mob prevented them from doing so.
The accident occurred within 24 hours after another a
similarly reckless convoy of the Kogi State Governor
killed Professor Festus Iyayi, a former Academic Staff
Union of University (ASUU) President, on his way to an
ASUU conference in Kano on November 12.
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