BRT Bus crushes 16-year old school boy to death

It was a sad story to tell about the death of  a 16-year old school boy,Daniel Ezekiel who was crushed to death this morning at Ogolonto Bus Stop, along Ikorodu Road by BRT bus in Lagos.

It was hard for his guardians, Dr. and Mrs. Olajide Oyesanya to believe the loss of Daniel and are they are yet to recover from the shock of his death.

Mrs Oyesanya narrated their experiences on what took pace on that fateful day. Mrs. Oyesanya informed that since she enrolled Ezekiel in school last January, he had always taken his breakfast by 7:15am before proceeding to school at 7:20am.

“And on that fateful day, he left home to school. But I was alerted of the incident that happened by someone who told me to find out if Ezekiel was safe. Immediately I started calling his teacher, but she refused to pick my call. I thought they were on assembly ground so I called the school director who also didn’t pick my calls.

“At that moment, I knew there was a problem. I was confused and my husband also called to inform me to proceed to his school. On my way, someone told me that Ezekiel had been rushed to Ikorodu General Hospital." She said weeping uncontrollable.

“When I got to the hospital premises, I was told to identify the lifeless body of Ezekiel; at that moment, I knew I had lost our dear child. I couldn’t believe my eyes that the child I fed at exactly 7:15am had become a corpse for me to pick at exactly 9:45am,” she said amidst tears.

According to her, she said she regretted enrolling him to school this early because she and her husband planned to enroll him to school in October this year,in order to avoid delay , they decided to enroll him to school in January.

The Oyesanya's pleaded with the government to  to construct a pedestrian bridge to serve the purpose of preventing a reoccurrence of such tragic incident.

Some residents who visited the family of Oyesanya to sympathise with them also supported that government should erect a pedestrian bridge to avoid more accidents.