Globacom: Business Woman Crushed To Death By BRT In Lagos, Driver Flees

Pastor (Mrs) Grace Okeleke a business woman and wife of the Head of Public Relations, Globacom, Andrew Okeleke is dead. 

According to The Punch, Mrs Grace Okeleke who was crushed to death in Monday by a driver of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) identified as Collins Nnodi has gone into hiding after the incident.

It was gathered that the Mr Okeleke attempted to cross the road after being dropped off by her driver around 7.20pm, when Nnodi, who was driving a bus with number plate EPE 59 XR, knocked her down and she died on the spot.

However, Nnodi was said to have zoomed off and abandoned the victim at the scene of the accident.

READ ALSO

https://ekohotblog.com/2020/05/15/dstv-nigeria-subscriber-group-rejects-dstv-gotv-new-tarrif/

Annoyed by the development, it was gathered that an angry mob vandalised some BRT buses plying the route.

Meanwhile, the Chief Security Officer, Primero Transport Services Limited, the franchise holder of the BRT buses, Cletus Okodolor, while commiserating with the family, condemned Nnodi for abandoning Grace at the scene of the accident.

Okodolor said, “We sympathise with the family and we are shocked at the action of the busman. The accident involved one of our buses, with number 344. The bus was coming from Ikorodu inwards Mile 12, and she was trying to cross to the other side of the road without actually looking properly; she entered the BRT corridor to cross and there was contact.

“The woman died on the spot. But the busman did not help matters, because he drove off out of fear of being hurt and refused to put us in the picture. Suddenly, we started getting calls that an angry mob was vandalising our vehicles, because one of our buses knocked someone down on the corridor and we quickly informed the Traffic Division of the Owutu Police Station and its personnel were dispatched in the area.

“When we got there, we learnt that the husband had taken the corpse to the morgue. But during our investigation, we realised that the busman had parked his bus in front of our office and left the engine running, instead of parking it at the right place.

“So, we started searching for the busman, but he was nowhere to be found and that was how we realised that it was the busman, who knocked down the woman.”

“The driver is still at large and we are working with the police to get him arrested. We have also taken the bus to the police station.”

Ekohotblog understands that until her death, Mrs Grace Okeleke was a minister at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, survived by her husband and children.