A petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Benin, Edo State, Jeffrey Omoregie has died after he was hit by a driver on Uselu-Lagos Expressway in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
Mr Omoregie was on his way to a Union Bank branch when the incident happened. He had concluded plans to travel to Canada for his master’s degree programme.
The 26-year-old was knocked down when he attempted crossing the expressway to get to the bank when the yet-to-be-identified motorist while driving a Lexus car with number plate YAB 985 CL at top speed, rammed into him.
His mother, Fortune, told PUNCH she was inside a vehicle conveying her to meet her son when she observed people clustering around an accident victim.
She said, “I got down and started telling people to let us help the victim. But on moving closer, I realised it was my son lying down in a pool of blood. I started crying and shouting that people should help me. He was still breathing and people helped me carry him inside a vehicle.
“We quickly rushed him to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, where we were told that he had died. He was to travel out of the country on August 28 and I was going to the bank to give him money for the travel.
“The youth that assisted me said the boy that killed my son is a Yahoo boy (Internet fraudster) and that his vehicle came from nowhere to knock my son down. If you see the damage on the car, you will think that the vehicle rammed into a truck. I want justice.”
The deceased’s younger brother, Aisosa, accused the police of hiding the identity of the suspect.
Spokesman of Edo Police Command Chidi Nwabuzor said the case “had been transferred to the State Traffic Division where further investigation will carried out.”
