Anastasia Okechukwu Reporting
The Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Lagos State chapter, has called on the state government to conduct psychiatric tests on drivers of the state–owned vehicles.
The call followed the recent BRT-train collision accident on March 9, 2023 at Shogunle Level Crossing, Ikeja, leading to death of six persons.
CDHR, In a statement, its Lagos State chairman, Comrade Kehinde Adeoye, sympathised with families of those who lost their relatives and wished the injured speedy recovery and further adviced the state government to thoroughly investigate the incident, (Guardian report)
“It would be recalled that on Saturday, February 26, 2022, A 22-year old fashion designer, Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwola, met her untimely death inside a Lagos State-owned facility operated by the Lagos Bus Services Limited (LBSL).
“Sunday, February 26, 2023, made it a year, yet the case is still in court having suffered several unnecessary adjournments. Ayanwola was only buried on December 16, 2022.
“This incidents that keep occuring has cause too many persons dead. We, hereby, call on Lagos State government to do all within its powers to conduct psychiatric tests for drivers of state-owned vehicles.
“Government should also name the three other persons said to be inside BRT Bus No. 240257 apart from Andrew Nice Ominikoron, the driver, at the time of Ayanwola’s brutal murder and their accomplices.”