A Twitter user, @otybe has narrated how she lost a colleague simply named as Cletus to an avoidable death in Lagos.
According to her, Cletus’ death could have been averted if the Lagos state government had acted on the menace of trailers on Apapa road.
She shared on Twitter:
I lost a colleague yesterday to the cold hands of death. This guy was a definition of the Bible’s definition of ‘toiling the earth’. Not like he was rich but he was way better than where he was coming from. The most painful part of his death is that it was avoidable.
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019
How do you explain seeing someone at work and then the next minute he’s gone. He was involved in a bike accident @apapa with a truck (the same menace we have been complaining to @AkinwunmiAmbode about…
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019
The company tried to get an ambulance once they were alerted of this accident. Unfortunately they couldn’t get to him on time because of traffic caused by these trucks.
He died few mins to the hospital. @Gidi_Traffic
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019
Now we are on our way to his house to pay his wife a condolence visit and miraculously all the trucks have disappeared from the roads.
It took the visit of @NGRPresident to get our governor @AkinwunmiAmbode to do his job. @Gidi_Traffic
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019
What have we done to deserve the kind of leaders we have?
How did we get to this point?
Cletus worked so hard to be where he was before death snatch him from us.
Who will take care of his wife, kids and relatives?
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019
I pray none of us nor our families be stuck in traffic while being conveyed to the hospital with an ambulance.
RIP Cletus.
— agirlhasnoname (@otybe) February 8, 2019