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Yesterday morning, I and my dad visited two of his satffs who were involved in a ghasty motor crash along the Epe-Lekki expressway. One of them had a fracture on his right arm and was in serious pain. The other, had a swollen left leg.

we arrived at the hospital after visiting accident site. I would have loved to show readers the picture but the affected vehicle was been carried away as at the time we visited the site. At the hospital, we were told that the victim with the fraacture should go for a X-Ray scan in another location which was about 30km from where we where since there was no X-Ray scan in that General Hospital.

As we travelled to the next location, I watched as the victim went through pains as we ran into various pot-holes. The entire experience prompted me to inquire into the incident.

According to eye-witnesses and of course, the victims, i was reliably told that the event was the handy work of illegal road blocks of men of the Nigerian police. The men of the Nigerian police had stopped a petrol motor tanker and had delayed the vehicle in order to exthort money from the driver of the tanker. The tanker's light was not visible in site and thus, the commercial vehicle in which the staffs were in, ran into the tanker. Immediately, the policemen disappeared.

Two issues readily comes to mind, the first is the issue of illegal road blocks and the second will be, the issue of speed limits.

We have had several cases where people have lost their lives as a result of these numerous road blocks. We need to gather voices and mandates together against illegal road blocks. You can write newspaper houses to demand the attention of the Inspector-General of Police to this critical issue and I am sure he will take action.

The issue of speed limits is also critical. If the driver of the vehicle knew the speed limits and is also aware that there are enforcers of this limits watching, may be the accident would have been avoided. You can also help by calling the attention of the transport regulators via the same medium of newspapers to this critical issues. Speed Limits should be boldly written and measured. Offenders should be greatly punished. These are but the little ways we can help to make change in our society.

Issues that sorround saving lives are of course, a worthy course. Please help alleviate the trend.

Cheers,
Best Regards,
'Kayode Ajayi-Smith,
Member, Editorial Team,
Development Report Magazine,
www.developmentreport.org
+2348055316398, 07025813561

August 31, 2008 | 3:31 AM Comments  0 comments

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