The traumatic and dark event that plunged the family of Mr. Abdulrasaq Hakeem Idowu into lifetime regret and an unforgettable experience that claimed the lives of his 2-year-old baby and pregnant wife in a road accident that involved him and a Dangote cement truck at Saki-Ilesha Baruba Road in Oyo State.
The accident occurred on Monday, May 15, 2023, and put the whole town in a sour mood, which led to the deaths of two individuals of the same family: a pregnant mother and a 2-year-old daughter. It immediately received the attention of the police, but the driver resisted arrest by escaping immediately after learning about the loss of lives in the accident.
Following the occurrence, a businessman associated with Dangote Cement Group, Mr. Abdullahi Adeshina popularly called Dangote, went ahead in the dead of night to evacuate the cement from the vehicle. The growing influence of Abdullahi on the police made him evacuate the cement without the necessary steps from the police and also care for the dead and the husband on the sick bed.
The family made a move to report the businessman for his nonchalant attitude towards the victim of the accident as a business partner to the company involved, which failed to condole with the family over the dead and check on the ill husband (Idowu) at the hospital with the police, but the event took a dribble where the representative of the family was being threatened by the businessman and police for being vocal about the injustice melted on the family.
According to a source confided in Korrectnews, Monsurat Raji, the rising broadcaster in Oke-Ogun and employer of J.FM, was the family representative who visited the station on Tuesday to file a report on the state of affairs concerning the loss of lives in the accident and the injured husband (Mr. Idowu) at the hospital. We learned that Saki Divisional Police Officer, Insp. Oluokun Oluyinka, invited Mr. Abdullahi Dangote after the report, and he made a confessional statement that he was the one who evacuated the goods from the vehicle while police tow the vehicle to the station.
Surprisingly, Mr. Abdullahi kept assaulting Miss. Monsurat verbally in front of policemen, and notably among the police officers that assisted in the assault was one inspector Mariam of Saki Area command who went to arrest Monsurat with personal vehicle of Abdullahi without warrant.
Our source added that the case was transferred to Area Command, where Abdullahi promised to jail Monsurat for speaking up for the family and alleged her of calling him a ritualist, which Mrs. Monsurat denied and provided evidence of a conversation between them at the police station, but Abdullahi has the backing of the police to victimize Monsurat because of her known influence on media space.
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He proceeded to traumatized the family by accusing them of burning a vehicle that killed another son of them at challenge junction few years ago and hell bent on using money and influence to rape the family of the justice at the station.
Consequently, the police have promised to help Abdullahi get Monsurat to kneel for him after his business association killed her family members and rendered his uncle hospitalized without catering for him, and they still want to get the family of the bereaved jailed for reporting to police their nonchalant attitude towards the victims of the accident.
The Nigerian police is known for upholstering justice, but the men of the Nigerian police in Saki are doing otherwise by fielding the egos of the rich and extorting the poor, according to our source.
All the medical bills from the day of incident is being footed by a philanthropist, Alh. Haruna Egbinonla Harulite who has no affiliation with the event and the injured victim is still in coma awaiting a referral to Teaching Hospital in Ilorin or Ibadan.
As at time of filling this report, Dangote Groups and the agent (Abdullahi Dangote) has not sent a representative to the family of deceased and injured husband at the hospital.
