{"id":425322,"date":"2011-05-17T04:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/17\/hit-and-run-motorist-kills-police-commissioner%e2%80%99s-driver\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T04:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:01:20","slug":"hit-and-run-motorist-kills-police-commissioners-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/hit-and-run-motorist-kills-police-commissioners-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run motorist kills Police Commissioner\u2019s driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"80\">\n<p><strong>By Evelyn Usman<\/strong><br \/>One of the\u00a0 official drivers of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Eric Chonu is dead.\u00a0 The late Chonu, a Police Constable, met his unprepared end, weekend, after he was hit from behind while riding home, on his motorbike, along the Lagos\/Abeokuta Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Eye witnesses said after he was hit and left helplessly on the expressway,\u00a0 calls were made to the control room,<br \/>after he managed to identify himself\u00a0 as a policeman but there was no response.<\/p>\n<p>Again, policemen from Alagbado and Sango said to have been contacted did not arrive the scene early, as Chonu, who<br \/>was at that time bleeding profusely could hardly talk.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, report said he was rushed to an undisclosed private hospital, where he was rejected on the ground<br \/>that there was no money to deposit for the commencement of treatment on him.<\/p>\n<p>While effort to rush him to the general hospital was on, he reportedly gave up the ghost, having lost so much blood.<\/p>\n<p>News of his death was received with shock at the command, as some of his colleagues gathered in groups discussing<br \/>the demise of one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>His bereaved widow who was reached on her late husband\u2019s telephone, expressed shock at her husband\u2019s death, saying<br \/>if help had come on time, her husband would have lived to recount his ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Sympathizers who throng the widow\u2019s Sango Otta abode, described the deceased as a meticulous and caring husband and father.<\/p>\n<p>His corpse as gathered, had been moved to his home town in Delta state for burial.<br \/>Meanwhile the command said it was on the look out for the truck which snuffed life out of the late Constable Chonu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/hit-and-run-motorist-kills-police-commissioners-driver\/\" title=\"Hit-and-run motorist kills Police Commissioner\u2019s driver\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hit-and-run motorist kills Police Commissioner\u2019s driver<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Evelyn Usman One of the\u00a0 official drivers of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Eric Chonu is dead.\u00a0 The late Chonu, a Police Constable, met his unprepared end, weekend, after he was hit from behind while riding home, on his motorbike, along the Lagos\/Abeokuta Expressway. Eye witnesses said after he was hit and left helplessly on the expressway,\u00a0 calls were made to the control room, after he managed to identify himself\u00a0 as a policeman but there was no response. Again, policemen from Alagbado and Sango said to have been contacted did not arrive the scene early, as Chonu, who was at that time bleeding profusely could hardly talk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hit-and-run motorist kills Police Commissioner\u2019s driver - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/hit-and-run-motorist-kills-police-commissioners-driver\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hit-and-run motorist kills Police Commissioner\u2019s driver - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Evelyn Usman One of the\u00a0 official drivers of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Eric Chonu is dead.\u00a0 The late Chonu, a Police Constable, met his unprepared end, weekend, after he was hit from behind while riding home, on his motorbike, along the Lagos\/Abeokuta Expressway. 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