{"id":286,"date":"2020-08-18T16:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:47:19","slug":"police-arrest-owner-and-driver-of-container-that-crushed-faan-workers-to-death-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2020\/08\/18\/police-arrest-owner-and-driver-of-container-that-crushed-faan-workers-to-death-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Owner And Driver Of Container That Crushed FAAN Workers To Death In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287\" src=\"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos.jpg\" alt=\"Police Arrest Owner And Driver Of Container That Crushed FAAN Workers To Death In Lagos\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos.jpg 900w, https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos-750x333.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Arrest Owner And Driver Of Container That Crushed FAAN Workers To Death In Lagos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the death of two staff of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria FAAN on July 26, Lagos state police command has arrested the owner and driver of the container that crushed them to death.<\/p>\n<p>Chidinma Ajoku and her colleague, Chima Nnaekpe, had closed from work on the said day and boarded a commercial bus home. Sadly, the truck driver conveying the tanker lost control and the container fell on their bus. Chidinma and Chima died on the spot. Three others sustained injuries and were rushed to the General Hospital lsolo for treatment while the corpses of Chidinma and Chima were deposited at Yaba mortuary for post mortem examination. The driver of the commercial bus, Daniel Okwoje, who sustained injuries, died later in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in the state command headquarters in Ikeja today August 18, the state Commissioner for Police, Hakeem Odumosu, disclosed that the truck driver, Okanlawon Sodiq who fled the scene of the accident, was arrested by a team of detectives from Ilasamanja division on August 7.<\/p>\n<p>Odumosu said the truck owner, Wasiu Lekan, was equally arrested for operating an unlashed container.<\/p>\n<p>The police boss said the suspects will be prosecuted. He warned operators of containers to comply with safety rules especially lashing their containers or face the full weight of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of two staff of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria FAAN on July 26, Lagos state police command has arrested the owner and driver of the container that crushed them to death. Chidinma Ajoku and her colleague, Chima Nnaekpe, had closed from work on the said day and boarded a commercial bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Police Arrest Owner And Driver Of Container That Crushed FAAN Workers To Death In Lagos","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[89,91,90,92,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Police-Arrest-Owner-And-Driver-Of-Container-That-Crushed-FAAN-Workers-To-Death-In-Lagos.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-4C","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}