Iyayi's Death: FRSC Shielding Killer Driver

There are strong indications that the Federal Road Safety Corps is shielding the alleged driver of the convoy vehicle that caused the accident which killed a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi at Banda village, near Lokoja, Kogi State on Tuesday.

The Kogi State FRSC sector commander, Olakunle Motajo, speaking with journalist in Abuja on the telephone said that the report of the investigation into the accident was not ready.

Motajo “The report is not ready yet, we are still working on it; don’t worry, I will call you whenever it is ready,” he said and terminated the phone call.

Calls made to his phone to ask him further questions were not responded to.

The corps had blamed ‘wrongful overtaking’ by the convoy vehicle for the accident, saying its preliminary investigation showed that the driver of the pick-van was to blame for the crash.

 Motajo, who said this in a previous interview, however, recanted when he was contacted on Wednesday.

“Motajo said, “I never blamed the governor’s convoy for the crash, and I didn’t speak to anyone because the investigation is not yet concluded. It is my men that are carrying out the investigation and they are not done yet. By tomorrow morning (Thursday), the report would be ready, so call me, I will give you the full details of our findings.”

On Thursday, the Corps Education Officer of the FRSC, Jonas Agwu, did not respond to several calls to his phone and the questions sent to him on the high rate of accidents involving convoy drivers and the refusal of the corps to prosecute errant drivers in the convoys of men and women in power.

Rather than respond to the questions sent to him, Agwu simply said he had been busy, adding that he was “waiting to see if there is any available report (on the accident).”