…As Security guard remanded for allegedly killing a police officer***
The management of University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, said on Wednesday that an unidentified man deliberately jumped down from the sixth floor of the hospital.
Mr Deji Bobade, the Public Relations Officer of the hospital, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan.
He said the man purposely went to the floor where the museum was under lock and jumped down in an attempt to commit suicide.
“As we all know, the JOHESU strike is on and no health worker was allowed to be at work.
“At around 9 am, people around the ground floor of the building said they just heard the thud sound of a heavy object.
“On getting to the place, the body of a man, probably in his late 50s or early 60s, was found on the ground.
“ Doctors around certified him dead.
“We contacted the Police Public Relations Officer, Adekunle Ajisebutu, who ordered his men to deposit the body in our mortuary here.
“There was no means of identification found on him but his footwear was a “dunlop’’ rubber slippers,’’ he said.
Efforts by NAN correspondent to get the police to shed more light on the incident proved abortive as Ajisebutu failed to pick his calls.
In the meantime, a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a security guard, Ayomide Ibitayo, in prison for allegedly causing the death of a policeman and injuring two pedestrians through reckless driving.
Ibitayo, 29, is facing a four-count charge of manslaughter, causing serious harm, driving an unregistered vehicle and driving without a driver’s licence on the highway. The accused, a security guard attached to one of the commercial banks on Lagos Island, attributed the cause of the accident to brake failure.
The Magistrate, Mrs Olumide Fusika, ordered that the accused be remanded in Ikoyi Prisons. The Prosecutor, Insp. Ben Ekundayo, had informed the court that the accused committed the offences on March 10 at 10:50 p.m. along Eko Bridge.
He said that accused drove recklessly causing the death of Insp. John Okoh attached to the Port Command, Marina, Elegbeta, Lagos. He said that the accused also injured one Mr Chinedu Igbo causing his two legs to be amputated and injured one Mr Wasiu Abdul on one of his thighs. He also said that the accused had no driver’s licence and the vehicle, a Toyota Camry, was not registered. The offences contravened Sections 19 (1), 20 and 25(a) of the Road Traffic Law of Lagos State, 2012.
Additional reports from Vanguard
