The household of a girl, Taskirat Anjolaiya, who was hit by a reckless and negligent police driver and knocked right into a comatose state alongside together with her new born child, has filed a N25 million lawsuit towards the police.
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Umar Manko are named as defendants within the lawsuit.
The accident occurred three months in the past in Lagos as a police driver in an official van drove within the mistaken route on a one-way road.
The lawsuit alleges that the wrongdoer, Corporal Friday Azukah, drove an official police van recklessly, hitting the nursing mom and her child on June 23, 2013 as they alighted from a business car at Church bus cease alongside the busy Oshodi-Apapa Express street in Lagos.
The accident occurred as Corporal Azukah drove a feminine good friend of his supervisor, Divisional Police Officer Ibrahim Zango of FESTAC police station, to catch a flight for which she was nearly late.
Eyewitnesses acknowledged that the police driver lower into the one-way lane of the categorical street to keep away from visitors, rushing dangerously till he knocked down the victims.
After the accident, Corporal Azukah had centered on arranging a cab to move his superior's mistress to the airport. He later deposited N70, 000 at a hospital in order that the victims might be admitted for therapy.
But the victims' household mentioned they've since incurred prices operating into hundreds of thousands of naira each in medical therapy and varied take care of each victims.
Doctors on the Lagos University Teaching Hospital identified Mrs. Taskirat with pelvic fracture in addition to extreme mind and different inside accidents. Her child, Ammarah Eletu, reportedly suffered a damaged jaw amongst different severe accidents.
In addition to looking for N25 million basically damages, the lawsuit additionally seeks N1.7 million in particular damages.