DEAD IN ACTION! How an encounter with Okada killed Kwara Dep. Gov's ADC
At about 2.30pm last Wednesday along the busy Iloffa Road, GRA, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, the scene looked like the daily routine of the police harassment of commuters and Okada riders on Nigerian roads,when policemen, in an overzealous manner, would shove them out of the roads to clear the traffic for quick passage of the convoy of their bosses. Kwara State Deputy Governor, Elder Peter Kisira, was returning from an official function when his convoy ran into a traffic gridlock while negotiating the bend to enter the busy Iloffa Road.
The convoy actually came to a halt in the sunny afternoon despite the fuming blast of the siren, a development that prompted the deputy governor’s ADC, Inspector Gaya Mark, to jump out of one of the vehicles to remove a motorcyclist turning in the middle of the road to pick a passenger oblivious of the convoy. Dramatically, as he dragged the Okada rider off the road, he slumped. And before he could be rushed to the Civil Service Clinic, at the end of the road, Gaya had given up the ghost. The ADC was believed to have died of cardiac arrest.
Investigation revealed that there was no exchange of words not to talk of scuffles between the deceased and the Okada man contrary to speculation.
Gaya,whose father is a senior police officer based in Abuja, according to an account, had sat for a promotion interview last month and was looking forward to his cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, rank when the unexpected happened.
Against the insinuation that the late ADC might have been hurt by the charm of the motorcyclist, the office of the deputy governor, in a statement on Thursday, clarified that he died of cardiac arrest.
The deputy governor, Kisira, in the statement by his CPS,Timothy Nathaniel, commiserated with the family of Gaya.
“Mark, 40, is was survived by a wife and three children and his remains have since been deposited at the mortuary wing of the University of Ilorin, UITH”, a source said.
Contacted, Kwara State Police Command spokesman, ASP Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident, adding that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Agboola Glover-Oshodi, had visited the scene of the incident.
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