“Oga park well…”
“Sir, I am a Doctor and I have a medical emergency, I didn’t
mean to take ‘one-way’ but I can’t allow a patient die while I sit in traffic”
“Who you dey tell that kine lie?”
Brings out ID card,
“Officer, see my id card,
also if you look you can see my stethoscope in my car. I was just
summoned that a young boy had an accident and was rushed to the hospital, other
doctors are on strike but I can’t afford for the boy to die. That’s why I decided
to rush there.”
“Na Ogun go kill you and the boy”
Roughly pushes open the door of the Doctor’s jeep and pulls
him out by the neck.
"Officer, the law allows medical personnel on emergency to
take any route possible."
“You be ambulance? Abi your jeep na LASAMBUS?”
Officer please do not be angry, I seek only to save a life, I am sorry for
going against the law.
“he he he. Na me you dey speak english for? You go see
pepper today.” “where your particulars?”
The good doctor hands him the vehicle particulars. Just then
his phone rings
Grring Grring
“hello,”
he listens for a bit,
“put him on morphine, prep the theatre for surgery. If he
flatlines use the defilbrator. I will be there presently” hangs up.
Officer, okay how can we resolve this amicably. I really
need to go now. The patient might not survive another 30 minutes
“to bail yourself out go and bring 100,000”
"Aah aan, Oga police, it is people like you that keep giving
the force a bad name. I will pay no bribe. If you insist that I am at fault,
impound my car, I will take a taxi to the hospital and later I will have my
lawyer come to the station. If I have broken any law, let us meet in court."
The Doctor moves to walk away.
The policeman cocks his gun. Take one more step and I go
fire. I go just waste your life and I go talk say you be armed robber.
The Doctor is shocked to his bones.
The policeman beckons his colleagues who also come and
together they begin to abuse and even slap the doctor.
You dey insult policeman? We go teach you lesson today.
Oya enter the van…
3 Hours later.
The Doctor has had to call his lawyer, a very popular SAN to
meet him in the station, who after threatening to call the commissioner of
police finally secures his release.
“Just before I go I want to meet the officer who arrested
me. I have something to tell him”
“Officer yinusa no dey” another officer chimed. “ almost
immediately we reach here n aim hin wife call am for phone. Him cum rush commot”
“God saved him” Just let him know, if anything happens to
that poor boy. The blood will be on his head.
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The Doctor Drove like a mad man to the hospital.
However he was too late, the boy had long been dead…
The nurse walks shakily to the doctor. The father of the
dead boy is a policeman. He is threatening to arrest the doctor who didn’t care
enough to come and attend to an accident victim on time.
“oh no. not another police encounter today” the doctor
walked with sadness etched on his face to attempt to explain to the Father that
it was another policeman who caused the death of his son.
He walked into the waiting room and behold Officer Yinusa
stood in front of him.
“… erm erm oga… na .. you… be … the … doc..cc.. tor?”
What? It was your son that was involved in an accident?
“Well well well, officer,
you are the one responsible for the death of your own son.”
If only our policemen could learn to do the right thing and
follow due process. How many more
innocent boys have to die? How many more innocent citizens felled by police
bullets then paraded as armed robbers shot while escaping? How many more wives
made widows, children made orphans, all for selfish purposes. When will the police learn to stop harassing the
people they swore to protect?
“Officer I bear you no grudge, and I am sorry about the
death of your son, however I hope this will jolt you and your colleagues to
become professional in your conduct, doing the right thing at all times.”
