The ongoing promotional examination of policemen to the rank
of Sergeant and Inspector, at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, turned tragic
yesterday after a Police Sergeant attached to the Oyo State Police Command
slumped and died.
The Sergeant identified simply as Lekan, reportedly wrote the
promotional examination with his other colleagues between Wednesday and Friday
last week.
Vanguard gathered that officers who passed the examination were expected
to undergo an assessment exercise with a team of senior Police officers headed
by an Assistant Inspector General of Police.
Before the assessment, the policemen reportedly assembled in a
syndicate of 50 on the parade ground, awaiting their turn.
But the situation took a tragic dimension when Sergeant Lekan,
who was to be promoted to the rank of Inspector, reportedly slumped at about
1pm. Members of his syndicate were said to have tried all they could to
resuscitate him, to no avail.
A doctor said to have arrived the parade ground informed the
perplex policemen that Lekan had passed on.
An ambulance from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,
LASUTH , later arrived the scene and removed the corpse to the mortuary .
Though the situation jolted the policemen but it did not stop
the assessment exercise .
Police sources at the college told Vanguard that the deceased came
to the college sick.
According to a policeman who spoke on condition of anonymity,
“we are from the same command. Lekan was involved in an auto accident back in
Oyo state.
“In fact, he managed to come for the promotional course because
he had been sick. He passed the examination that was written last week.”
He should have stayed back home,ooh what a pity
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