The grieving
parents of a 10-year-old pupil of Anglican Primary School, Ikorodu, Toheeb
Abdullahi, who was crushed to death by a Pepsi truck are not happy over
the shabby way the company has treated
them.
The parents felt
that the company should have visited to pay condolence visit. But an official
of the company, who wishes to remain anonymous said the company has given
N100,000 and he couldn’t understand what else they wanted.
The victim’s
father, Salami, said he had resolved with his wife not to seek redress in
court.
He lamented that
the firm, had yet to pay them a condolence visit.
“My boy was a very
intelligent boy, as well as a devoted Muslim. He was my second child. I was at
work on the Lagos Island when I received the news. When I visited the police
station, I was told the truck driver was in the cell. But let them release him,
we have taken this as our fate,” he added.
An official of the
SevenUp Bottling Company Plc, bottler of Pepsi, said: “The company was fully
involved in the boy’s burial. They are Muslims and the boy had to be buried
immediately. We foot the bill 100 per cent.
“About N100,000
was paid for the burial and we also paid them a visit yesterday (Saturday),
barely a week after the incident happened. The truck, as I speak with you, is
still in the custody of the police,” he said.
The Police Public
Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.
An eyewitness said: “The kids were coming back from school when the rough edge
of the Pepsi truck hooked the boy’s shirt. There was traffic on the road, so the
driver of the truck did not know what had happened. He drove forward without
knowing the boy had fallen on the ground and his head close to the tyre. The
truck broke the boy’s skull. It was such a gory sight that people had to
quickly cover the dead body with cardboard.”
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