Wike constitutes panel to investigate death of ‘one chance’ victim in Abuja

Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), has constituted a nine-member panel to investigate the death of Greatness Olorunfemi, a victim of a “one-chance” robbery.

According to a statement issued by the FCT health services and environment secretariat, the panel would be inaugurated on Thursday.

“One chance” is a type of robbery in which unsuspecting passengers are lured into commercial vehicles whose occupants are robbers, who attack and strip the victims of all their valuables.

On September 26, Greatness was said to have been pushed down from a moving vehicle, believed to be a “one chance car” along the Maitama-Kubwa expressway.

She was reported to have been severely injured and was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment.

However, she was allegedly rejected by the officers on duty at the healthcare facility, who insisted on having a police report.

She was reported to have died moments later.

The membership of the panel consists of the representatives of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Medical Women Association of Nigeria, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives and Association of Resident Doctors.

Others are the representatives of the Association of Pathologists of Nigeria, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, General Counsel, FCTA and the Health Services Department.

Dolapo Fasawe, mandate secretary of the FCT health services and environment secretariat, said findings of the panel would be made available to the public.

Fasawe said the ministee has expressed his commitment to ensuring that the investigation would be conducted with the “utmost transparency, integrity and professionalism”.