SAD NEWS: Dangote Truck Driver Crushes Own Conductor to Pieces

Iekki-Epe Expressway

Tragedy struck on the Lekki-Epe
Expressway after the driver of a
truck belonging to the Dangote
Cement, identified as Ajani Yekini,
crushed his own conductor, Mojeed
Jubril, to death.
Source learnt that Jubril had
slept under the truck before Yekini
mounted the steering and drove off.
He was said to have climbed on his
head, killing Jubril on the spot.
Policemen from the Elemoro
division were said to have arrived
to remove the corpse at the Frajend
Coy end of the Lekki-Epe
Expressway, where the incident
happened.
A senior official of the Federal Road
Safety Corps, Azubuike Onyemeh,
said the conductor was killed
around 10.30am.
He said, “The truck was left
overnight at the spot by the driver.
The conductor decided to sleep
under it. By Wednesday morning,
the driver, who was not aware that
the man was sleeping there, just
drove off. It was the cry of the man
that caught his attention, but by
then, it was too late, as the vehicle
had run over him.”
The police spokesperson, SP Dolapo
Badmos, said policemen from the
Elemoro division deposited the
corpse in a morgue for autopsy,
adding that the driver had been
arrested.
She said, “At about 10.30am, a
truck, driven by Yekini of Dangote
Cement, Ibeshe, ran over his
conductor, Jubril, aged 24. The
victim died on the spot. The corpse
has been deposited at the Mainland
General Hospital morgue, Yaba, for
autopsy.”
In a related development, a yet-to-
be identified woman has been
killed by a driver at the Afari Ogun
end of the International Airport
Road, Oshodi.
It was gathered that the victim was
walking beside the road when the
driver, identified as Oluwole
Ogunbona, hit her.
She was reportedly rushed to the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital,
Idi Araba, where she was
confirmed dead.
The police spokesperson, Badmos,
confirmed the incident, adding that
investigations were ongoing.
She said, “The incident happened
around 7.30pm on Wednesday. The
driver knocked down the female
pedestrian, and she was rushed to
LUTH where she later died. We are
investigating the case.”