By An eight-day-old baby has died after allegedly getting trapped in a road block caused as a result of the stakeholders’ meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogba area of Lagos State on Thursday.
According to the Father of the child who tweeted via @sauce231, the baby was sick and was being taken to a specialist Hospital before the traffic gridlock was encountered on Acme Road, Ogba, Lagos.
In several tweets, he revealed how his parents and wife were stuck in the gridlock and how Lagos State Traffic Management officials failed to grant access to the ambulance which was conveying the little baby from Ogba to Lagos Island.
He tweeted: “@AkinwunmiAmbode @APCNigeria Thanks to you guys today for the roads you blocked without prior notice. My eight-day-old baby boy died.
“My baby died in traffic on the way to the hospital, the day after his naming ceremony. I prayed for you this morning, kissed you and told you I would see you and your beautiful mum when I’m back from work.
“I was at the office; my wife, dad, mum, and three of my aunties were the ones doing the running around. From Oke Ira Ogba, they were referred to a children specialist hospital on the island but died in the traffic.
“Why didn’t the LASTMA officials that my parents were begging to let them through because of the emergency call the attention of the ambulance?
“Imagine your child dying in the presence of his mother and grandparents inside traffic. First grandchild.”
The bereaved father further stated how his father later brought the corpse of his baby to his office, Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Hq Annex, Ogba, in order to go bury him.
It will be recalled that the leadership of the APC in Lagos which had series of stakeholders meeting at its Secretariate located on Acme Road, Ogba which had various top members of the party in attendance.
The series of meetings are being held ahead of the July 22 local government election in the State.
Green News.
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