Police Officer Found Dead In His Car After Failing To Get Promotion.
There was shock at the Police Training School on Oba Akinjobi Way in the Ikeja area of Lagos on Tuesday when policemen and shop owners found a corporal lying dead in his car.
The corporal, Elias Agi, who was suspected to have died of drug overdose, was found dead around 7.30am in his blue Volkswagen Passat car.
Corporal Agi, who was attached to the Safer Highway Patrol, Lagos State Police Command, had been one of the officers undergoing the corporal-to-sergeant promotion course at the school.
The promotion is divided into two parts: an examination section and an interview...
According to PUNCH, the deceased was said to have sat for the examination and passed. However, the policeman was said to have missed the interview with the Police Assessment Committee because Badagry, where he lived, is far away from Ikeja where the interview should have taken place.
It was learnt that Cop. Agi, having failed to meet the full requirement for promotion, became sad when he discovered that the exercise had ended for the year.
He was said to have returned to his car, reclined on the driver’s seat and ingested the drug.
Agi’s corpse had been deposited at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy.
Sources say it is likely the shock of missing the assessment for his promotion might have forced the corporal to use drugs when he returned to his car, leading to his death.
A security man, who witnessed the incident, said the gates were locked temporarily to prevent people from entering to see the corporal’s corpse.
He said, “He had got to the school on Monday afternoon, but we found him dead around 7.30am today (Tuesday). He had just finished the promotional course to become a sergeant and passed. He was to appear before a promotion committee for the final assessment, but he came late for the exercise.
“Minutes later, he sat inside the car and then took some drugs. After a few minutes, he stretched on the driver’s seat and that was the end. We got to know when people started gathering to look at him. We had to lock the gates to prevent more crowds from pouring in.”
The corporal, Elias Agi, who was suspected to have died of drug overdose, was found dead around 7.30am in his blue Volkswagen Passat car.
Corporal Agi, who was attached to the Safer Highway Patrol, Lagos State Police Command, had been one of the officers undergoing the corporal-to-sergeant promotion course at the school.
The promotion is divided into two parts: an examination section and an interview...
According to PUNCH, the deceased was said to have sat for the examination and passed. However, the policeman was said to have missed the interview with the Police Assessment Committee because Badagry, where he lived, is far away from Ikeja where the interview should have taken place.
It was learnt that Cop. Agi, having failed to meet the full requirement for promotion, became sad when he discovered that the exercise had ended for the year.
He was said to have returned to his car, reclined on the driver’s seat and ingested the drug.
Agi’s corpse had been deposited at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy.
Sources say it is likely the shock of missing the assessment for his promotion might have forced the corporal to use drugs when he returned to his car, leading to his death.
A security man, who witnessed the incident, said the gates were locked temporarily to prevent people from entering to see the corporal’s corpse.
He said, “He had got to the school on Monday afternoon, but we found him dead around 7.30am today (Tuesday). He had just finished the promotional course to become a sergeant and passed. He was to appear before a promotion committee for the final assessment, but he came late for the exercise.
“Minutes later, he sat inside the car and then took some drugs. After a few minutes, he stretched on the driver’s seat and that was the end. We got to know when people started gathering to look at him. We had to lock the gates to prevent more crowds from pouring in.”
Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joe Offor, confirmed Agi’s death.
- WE MUST LEARN TO TREAT OUR POLICE BETTER....dey operate under very very difficult conditions dat u and i cannot do if placed in same position.
- DIS GUY WAS SIMPLY WASTED... BCOS HE CLD HV BEEN GIVEN A CHANCE ON 'COMPASSIONATE' GROUNDS BY HIS USELESS SUPERIORS...WHO SEEM TO HV 4GOTTEN HOW HARD IT IS TO BE A CORPORAL ON MEAGRE SALARY.
- ITS HARD ENOUGH BEING A POLICEMAN IN NIGERIA, TALK LESS OF BEING EXPOSED TO OUR DIFFICULT JAUNDICED SOCIETY...EG TRAFFIC AND THE REST.
- IN A DECENT SOCIETY, HE WLD HV BN GIVEN AN OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION AT THE POLICE COLLEGE, KNOWING HE LIVES IN BADAGRY.
- GOVT MUST START TO TREAT DEM LIKE HUMAN BEINGS IF WE NEED DEM TO PERFORM BETTER.
- IT IS NOT EASY FOR ANY HUMAN BEING TO DO D JOBS DEY DO ON THE SALARY DEY COLLECT....U AND I WLD CAVE IN TO PRESSURE IF WE WERE EXPOSED TO THE SAME RUGGED CONDITIONS.
- LETS START HAVING SOME COMPASSION FOR EACH OTHER...DATS WHAT WESTERNERS DO.
- A POLICEMAN IN UK IS MADE FOR LIFE...HE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR MORTGAGE BY A BANK BEFORE U AND I....HIS LIFE IS WELL INSURED AND HE CARRIES HIMSELF WITH PRIDE... ETC.
- BUHARI...PLS WAKE UP AND ADDRESS THE WELFARE OF POLICE IN NIGERIA. ALL DEM OGAS DON CHOP D MONEY WHICH DEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE USED TO IMPROVE THEIR LOTS.
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