The continued disregard for traffic rule and excessive speeding by officers of the Nigeria police has caused brain injury to a young mother and left permanent scar on her daughter, writes Chiemelie Ezeobi
A visit to the surgical ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Mushin, last Saturday by this reporter was revealing. A woman had lain in bed writhing in pain. She had lost everything. With her sunken appearance and disorder speech, Mrs. Taskirat Eletu’s future and that of her baby are threatened. Mrs. Eletu and her baby are victims of police recklessness and brutality that has continued in the country unabated. A police Corporal, Friday Azuka had caused a fatal damage to the pelvic bone and faces of Eletu and her daughter.
