Police nab truck owner over Otedola bridge fire

Homicide detectives from the Lagos State Criminal Investigation And Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti Yaba,  assigned to investigate the multi fatal motor accident that occurred on June  28, 2018, along Lagos/Ibadan expressway by Otedola bridge, inward Ibadan, have arrested the truck owner, Hassan Yusuf Maiwake, male. About ten persons were said to have died while several […]

Homicide detectives from the Lagos State Criminal Investigation And Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti Yaba,  assigned to investigate the multi fatal motor accident that occurred on June  28, 2018, along Lagos/Ibadan expressway by Otedola bridge, inward Ibadan, have arrested the truck owner, Hassan Yusuf Maiwake, male.

About ten persons were said to have died while several others injured in the incident.

The truck with registration number NSR 888 YQ, driven by a yet to be identified suspect, laden with petroleum product, lost control, spilling its content and went up in flame, burning 56 vehicles and killing 9 unidentified persons.

Meanwhile, the owner of the truck, Hassan Maikwe of No.16 Hotoro Limawa, Kano state, was arrested on Thursday, 26/07/2018, in Kano and he is now helping the police in its effort to locate the driver of the ill-fated truck.

The CP assures that the Command will do all it can to help families who lost their beloved ones in the accident, find a closure by ensuring that anyone found culpable is brought to book.