angry policemen

The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital(UMTH) was temporarily thrown into a state of panic Thursday, as policemen who brought corpses of their colleagues killed in Bama to the morgue, went berserk; shooting a medical doctor and beating up some medical staff in the process. They were also alleged to have destroyed medical laboratory equipmenst in the hospital. A staff of the hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity narrated how the incident happened thus: “You know when there is no place to keep corpses, sometimes they are kept on the floor pending when a space is created for refrigerating, but when they came this morning, the mobile policemen went on the rampage and started shooting. They beat up a professor and othermedical staff and also shot a medical doctor before some miltary men in the hospital brought the situation under control.” According to him, the action of the policemenhas made some doctors in the hospital to resolve never to attend to policemen who arebrought in almost on a daily basis for treatment. “The doctors are saying that they deserve some respect from the uniform men because some of the security operatives, particularly the police, have this disrespecting attitude towards them. “Some of these doctors and professor they beat up would have been IGPs if they are in uniforms, but somebody who is far down theladder treats them as nobody,” he explained. Attempts to get the Chief Medical Director, Professor Tahir Othman, to speak on the incident did not yield results. Meanwhile, despite the Borno State Police Commissioner, Yuguda Abdullahi’s visit to UMTH about four hours after the incident, Resident Medical Doctors of the hospital have embarked on an indefinite strike following the shooting of their colleague by policemen. Chairman of Resident Doctors of the institution, Dr. Mohammed Yahaya said; “Our union has from today embarked on an indefinite strike following the attack on one of of our colleagues and others by policemen.”

angry policemen

The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital(UMTH) was temporarily thrown into a state of panic Thursday, as policemen who brought corpses of their colleagues killed in Bama to the morgue, went berserk; shooting a medical doctor and beating up some medical staff in the process. They were also alleged to have destroyed medical laboratory equipmenst in the hospital. A staff of the hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity narrated how the incident happened thus: “You know when there is no place to keep corpses, sometimes they are kept on the floor pending when a space is created for refrigerating, but when they came this morning, the mobile policemen went on the rampage and started shooting. They beat up a professor and othermedical staff and also shot a medical doctor before some miltary men in the hospital brought the situation under control.” According to him, the action of the policemenhas made some doctors in the hospital to resolve never to attend to policemen who arebrought in almost on a daily basis for treatment. “The doctors are saying that they deserve some respect from the uniform men because some of the security operatives, particularly the police, have this disrespecting attitude towards them. “Some of these doctors and professor they beat up would have been IGPs if they are in uniforms, but somebody who is far down theladder treats them as nobody,” he explained. Attempts to get the Chief Medical Director, Professor Tahir Othman, to speak on the incident did not yield results. Meanwhile, despite the Borno State Police Commissioner, Yuguda Abdullahi’s visit to UMTH about four hours after the incident, Resident Medical Doctors of the hospital have embarked on an indefinite strike following the shooting of their colleague by policemen. Chairman of Resident Doctors of the institution, Dr. Mohammed Yahaya said; “Our union has from today embarked on an indefinite strike following the attack on one of of our colleagues and others by policemen.”

Lagos state goverment Banned tri-cycle

Lagos State government Friday banned the activities of Tri-cycle popularly called Keke Napep from the major roads in the state, saying, “it is meant to protect the lives and property of the residents of the state.” The state government however vowed to impound any disused and abandoned vehicles across the state, explaining “4,632 vehicles were currently abandoned on over 9,100 roads in theState.Commissioner for transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa disclosed this at the 2013 Ministerial Press Briefing heldin Alausa to mark the sixth anniversary of Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration. Opeifa said that the state government had held several meetings with the unions on the development, adding “they have agreed to stay away from these roads.”Some of the roads tri-cycles operation was outlawed were: the entire Victoria Island, Government Residential Area, GRA Ikeja and Ikoyi. Also on Awolowo road and Awolowo way, Alausa and entire major roads in Surulere Local Government. Opeifa warned that tri-cycling isn’t a replacement for motorcycle popularly called Okada in the state, adding “it isn’t a sustainable means of transport for the state especially Lagos that is a megacity.” According to him, “I learnt that some Okada riders have began to sell their motorcycle to by tricycle but they can no longer operate on these major roads again.”The commissioner explained that section 3 of the 2012 Lagos road traffic law also outlawed the operation of the tri-cycle in the state. It will be recalled that Fashola signed the roadtraffic bill into law last year, aimed at improving safety on the Lagos roads.“After that law was gazetted, the state government allowed tri-cycle to operate on some of these roads because vehicles available in those roads weren’t enough to convey the passengers plying the road,” he said. Opeifa stated that today, the state has enough Bus Rapid Transport, BRT and LAGBUS buses, taxis and others are now available on these roads and the tricycle wouldn’t be needed.