Emmanuel, a young promising E-hailer driver left his home as usual. Little did he know that it was the finality of his life.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The chronology of his death was shared in a WhatsApp page of E-hail drivers:

According to one of the passengers in the car Toyota Camry Gold, He stopped at Iyana Oworo to pick up passengers towards the Island to continue the night work till morning. He has two people at the back. A woman and a young man of 30 but the third person sat at the front.

The woman said he got a trip of N4800 but the rider cancelled so he decided to drive to the Island while helping people.

The person at the front dropped at Obalende and the woman at the back moved to the front.

While approaching Civic Centre Ozumba Mbadiwe the young man at the back removed a kitchen knife and stabbed the driver in the neck twice. The driver managed to stop and run out and the woman at the front ran after him as the blood gushed out of his neck. He was palpitating for survival but collapsed and died.

The robber who sat at the back jumped to the front to move the car and run away but a car was behind they noticed the whole scene blocked him and a few guys challenged the thief who balanced with them to fight.

He was overpowered and beaten to a stupor but still breathing till police took him to the station with them. People who observe the robber's appearance identify him as one of those Ladipo boys who piece cars and sell the parts to willing dealers. (He wore the ladipo shoe with nylon as socks to prevent oil spills)

E-hailing drivers are now prey to fuel, prey to our partners, prey to app providers and prey to robbers.

So sad. I can only add the car plate number as the scene was so gory.

1:12 am
Sun Sunday day
July 2023
Victoria Island Lagos.

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Martin Niemoller, a prominent Protestant pastor during WW2 said this:
"They first came for the socialist, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionist and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me".


This is a clarion call for action to all the drivers in Lagos. It is an ill wind that does no one good. Be you a moove driver, nobody is particularly immune from this because those guys don't care about trackers since they snatch cars to sell the spare parts.

Omo i heard about it on our platform elites group. This is disheartening

https://www.nairaland.com/7775447/e-hail-drivers-life-matters-justice

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