Prof. Iyayi's Death: FRSC Shielding Killer Driver?
The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka
There are strong indications that the Federal Road Safety Corps is shielding the alleged driver of the convoy vehicle that caused the accident which killed a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi at Banda village, near Lokoja, Kogi State on Tuesday.
The
Kogi State FRSC sector commander, Olakunle Motajo, speaking with
journalist in Abuja on the telephone said that the report of the
investigation into the accident was not ready.
Motajo
“The report is not ready yet, we are still working on it; don’t worry, I
will call you whenever it is ready,” he said and terminated the phone
call.
Calls made to his phone to ask him further questions were not responded to.
The
corps had blamed ‘wrongful overtaking’ by the convoy vehicle for the
accident, saying its preliminary investigation showed that the driver of
the pick-van was to blame for the crash.
Motajo, who said this in a previous interview, however, recanted when he was contacted on Wednesday.
“Motajo said, “I
never blamed the governor’s convoy for the crash, and I didn’t speak to
anyone
because the investigation is not yet concluded. It is my men
that are carrying out the investigation and they are not done yet. By
tomorrow morning (Thursday), the report would be ready, so call me, I
will give you the full details of our findings.”
On
Thursday, the Corps Education Officer of the FRSC, Jonas Agwu, did not
respond to several calls to his phone and the questions sent to him on
the high rate of accidents involving convoy drivers and the refusal of
the corps to prosecute errant drivers in the convoys of men and women in
power.
Rather than respond to the
questions sent to him, Agwu simply said he had been busy, adding that he
was “waiting to see if there is any available report (on the
accident).”
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