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Demands Compensation for Victims of Truck Accident
- Safiu Kehinde
Nigerian social media influencer and activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has on Monday led students of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo state, to block the Auchi road against Dangote cement trucks in protest for the victims of accidents involving the company’s truck drivers.
VDM, in a video shared on his social media handle, directed the students to stop every Dangote cement trucks plying Auchi road.
He demanded financial compensation for all the victims and families involved in Dangote truck related accidents.
“This is simple. Every other truck will pass, but Dangote truck will not pass. They have to clear all the people in the hospital and all the families that Dangote’s unlicensed truck drivers have put in the hospital, they will settle them.
“Even though money cannot bring back people’s life, but this Dangote killings in Auchi has to stop and it stops today. No more Dangote until Dangote is ready to regulate its drivers; employ drivers with license and take care of all the families.
“We are not blocking the road, we are only blocking Dangote trailer and that’s it.” VeryDarkMan said in the video.
Prior to the protest, the activist had paid a visit a female victim who has been abandoned by the company in a hospital in Auchi.
As captured in a post shared on X, the victim who has been paralysed was allegedly abandoned for the past 11 months with over N5 million accumulated hospital bills.
NPO also Reported the last week’s incident involving the sister of Big Brother Naija’s star, Josephine Otabor, popularly known as Phyna.
While the lady whose leg has been amputated still remain hospitalized, another Dangote cement truck would Sunday be involved in another multiple crash, killing three commuters on the spot in front of Omega Fire Ministries.
The church’s General Overseer, Apostle Johnson Suleman, had in reaction expressed his disappointment with the management of the Dangote Group over alleged recruitment of untrained drivers.
Suleman who described the incident as avoidable further alleged that the Dangote Cement truck drivers are often overworked and mostly high on drugs.
“It’s an avoidable death. These deaths are very avoidable. They should be called to order. These are boys that are not trained. These are boys that are overworked. These are boys that are stressed.
“Some of them are even overworked. I think the management of the organisation need to do proper assessment because this is one madness too many. There are several across the country.” The clergyman had said.