Driver using phone crushes security guard to death in Lagos

The family of Effiong Etim has been thrown into mourning after he was allegedly killed by a company driver, Henry Uduze.

47-year-old Effiong was said to be returning from work on his motorcycle when he was allegedly crushed to death by Uduze on Omole Estate Phase II.

Witnesses said the suspect was receiving a telephone call when the incident happened. Effiong, died at the Accident and Emergency Centre at the Tollgate area, Ikeja.

According to an anonymous source, ‘The company driver was coming out of a bank when he was distracted by the call he was receiving. He crushed Effiong and hit another motorcyclist. The back tyre climbed Effiong’s head, but the second victim survived.

‘The driver wanted to run away, but the security man at the bank held him. The case was reported at the Isheri Police Station.’

The victim’s wife, Dorothy, a housemaid, said she was at work when she was called that her husband had been taken to a hospital by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps and the police.

The mother of seven said she got a call from a nurse at the centre telling her her husband was dead.

The corpse was deposited in a mortuary, while the victim’s wife was taken to the Isheri Police Station to make her statement.

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Dorothy said the suspect’s company’s lawyer offered N30,000 as payment for her husband’s mortuary bill, adding that the lawyer said her family would be compensated ‘based on our worth.’

‘My church got a lawyer for us and after the lawyer spoke with them, they promised to give us N250,000. But what will I do with that? All I want is for them to bury my husband and help my children. I want them to give my children scholarships,’ she said.

The victim’s family’s lawyer, Mrs. Nike Olawepo, said efforts to see representatives of the suspect’s company had been abortive.