Abandoned Truck Endangering Our Lives – Ogun Community

The Ogun traffic authority, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, is yet to tow away a truck that was involved in an accident at the Arepo side of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government.

This is despite a report by PUNCH Metro earlier in the week and also a promise by TRACE officials to tow the vehicle, a yellow truck with the number plate, Lagos LND 569 YE.

The truck has been worrisome to residents of Arepo community, Forthright Estate, Journalist Estate and other communities who use that road as the access to their various homes.

A security man, Mohammed Aliu, said, “I am one of the people who was given money to look after the truck by the owners.

“But for over a month now, they have not come to pick up their truck so we went to report to the Wawa Police Station.”

A factory worker at Arepo, Samuel Eneche, said, “That truck being in that place is very dangerous because vehicles pass under this Arepo Bridge and the other side of the road to access their area.”

When PUNCH Metro called the Ogun State Police Command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, for a reaction, he said, “I’ve called the commander of TRACE to call them to move it away.

“I am surprised that it is there but I will call them again to move that truck away because it can cause an accident.”

A security guard in the factory, Aliu Salisu, told our correspondent that the police brought it there after it had an accident.”

He said, “It has been weeks now that the police brought it there. It looked like it was involved in an accident because the truck’s content was offloaded into another truck.”

Eaglesforesight correspondent contacted TRACE PRO, Babatunde Akinbiyi, but he did not pick up his phone which rang out and the SMS sent to him was not replied to.