A man, Paulcy C. Iwuala has written to
YabaLeftOnline, to narrate the ordeal he went through after he was
involved in a fatal accident that left his two legs damaged.
In a letter titled “The Inhuman Face of God Is Good (GIG) Motors”, Paulcy called out God is Good Motors for abandoning him in the hospital.
Read His Full Note Below;
On April 2016, I was involved in a fatal accident in Ore. A
head-to-head collision between God is Good (GIG) Toyota Hiace Bus and
Peace Mass Transit bus. I was sitting in front of the car with the
driver and watched two passengers die in front of me.
I tried to force my way out of the car, which due to the impact
of the crash I believed may soon be on fire. The door was jammed, and
all my efforts to break the side screen and force my way out was futile.
Fortunately, some pedestrians on the roadside jacked the door open and I
fell out, with a knee that had been ruptured with multiple fractures,
and with a pain that was clearly unspeakable.
I was taken to FMC Ore by GIG management, where for 5 hours of
excruciating pain no one attended to me. I had to call a DSS man,
Raymond Nkemdirim, who was a personal friend, and through his mediation,
the transport company moved me and the driver to the University of
Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).
Again, for close to 24 hours I was abandoned in the casualty ward
of UBTH because GIG Motors wasn’t forthcoming with the money that was
needed to move me to the surgery ward for operation.
The doctors kept telling me that all they needed was for GIG
Motors to pay 45,000 only so they can buy the anaesthesia and antibiotic
drugs to be administered to me before the operation. The drugs were
supposed to numb me; from my leg downwards.
At any rate, the only other option was to use the General
Anaesthesia machine, which was so scarily old, duck tapes were used to
glue some of the pipes. They suggested that was the only other
alternative if there was no money to buy those anaesthesia drugs.
Eventually I became so fearful of ever going through that GA machine
that I called on GIG Motors that I was going to Abuja for treatment.
They decided to transport me to Abuja, but tried to offer me a
single sit in the bus. Such brazen wickedness for a person of my size,
not to mention that I was nursing a fractured knee which had to stay
suspended to make the pain somewhat bearable. After minutes of argument
they decided to give me an entire row of seat behind the driver. This
driver however was so reckless on the road; that he made sure to jump
into every pothole from Benin to Abuja.
The driver dropped me at GIG Park in Utako, Abuja, contrary to
the earlier agreement, which was to take me to Alliance Orthopaedic
Hospital, Area 11. He said he was not asked to do that. I called my
brother who swarmed the office with 3 Hilux vans full of policemen.
After they threatened to seize their buses if they didn’t comply
with the initial arrangement, they eventually took me to Alliance
Orthopaedic Hospital. Afterwards, GIG Motors will continue to avoid any
contact with me, and refuse every overture to partake in the financial
aspect of the medical attention I received in the hospital.
Their abandonment, and the trauma which they had caused me
beginning from that fatal accident to the continued inhumane nonchalance
to my situation has warranted my now calling them out on their wicked
and heartless attitude. And I am prepared to seek redress in every legal
way possible.
Paulcy C. Iwuala
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