A driver crushed Jeffrey Omoregie to death on the Uselu-Lagos Expressway in the Egor Local Government Area of the state, leaving his friends and relatives in deep despair. Africa Today News, New York gathered from his family that Omoregie was a petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Benin, Edo State who was planning to relocate to Canada.
Seemingly, Jeffrey was heading to a Union Bank location to await his mother, who needed to withdraw money from her bank account.
It was discovered that his mother had planned to provide him with some money once his preparations to move to Canada for his master’s program were finalized.
The unidentified driver, who was driving at high throttle in a Lexus with the license plate YAB 985 CL, crashed into the 26-year-old as he sought to cross the expressway at Uselu Junction so that he could reach the bank.
Fortune, Jeffrey’s mother, told a journalist she saw people swarming around an accident victim while moving to meet her son on Thursday.
She explained ‘I got down and started telling people to let us help the victim. But on moving closer, I realized it was my son lying down in a pool of blood. I started crying and shouting that people should help me. He was still breathing and people helped me carry him inside a vehicle.’
‘We quickly rushed him to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, where we were told that he had died. He was to travel out of the country on August 28 and I was going to the bank to give him money for the travel.’
‘The youth that assisted me said the boy that killed my son is a Yahoo boy (Internet fraudster) and that his vehicle came from nowhere to knock my son down. If you see the damage on the car, you will think that the vehicle rammed into a truck. I want justice.’
Aisosa, the younger brother of the deceased, said that the police had concealed the suspect’s identity.
‘On Tuesday, around 3 pm, I got a call from my mum and heard her saying help me, help me before the call disconnected. She called back and said I should be coming to the UBTH because my brother had an accident.’ He stated
‘I was on my way to the hospital when she called and said my brother had died. How the accident happened was that he crossed the Uselu-Lagos Expressway towards the barricade that separated the two lanes for vehicles coming and going.’
‘He was at the median and was about to cross to the other side of the road when the vehicle crushed him against the barricade. His legs and hands were broken; the accident was so bad that his head had a collision with the windscreen of the car that knocked him against the barricade and also to the other side of the road.’
‘Policemen from the BDPA division arrested the suspect that same Tuesday. But when my mum and I went to the police station and demanded to see the person responsible for my brother’s death, the Investigating Police Officer told us the suspect had been transferred to the Area Command on Sapele Road.’
‘When we got there, we only saw the car and they still didn’t show us the suspect or tell us his name. They are just hiding his identity and we need to know his identity because we want justice.’
Samuel Ebosele, Jeffrey’s friend, claimed that IPO had attempted to undermine the case and that some police officers had been contacting the family to negotiate a resolution.
The Divisional Police Officer moved the case to the State Traffic Division, Adesua, where additional investigation will be conducted, according to the state police public relations officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor.