One of the personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) identified as Akpan Blessing has been stabbed to death by a yet-to-be-identified assailants.
It was learnt that Blessing was stabbed in front of her residence in Piawe, Bwari, Abuja, in the early hours of last week Tuesday.
She was confirmed dead at Bwari General Hospital by the medical personnel on duty.
Blessing\u2019s friends, who spoke to our correspondent on Monday, said the deceased was rushed to different hospitals after the attack but she was denied immediate treatment because of the absence of a police report.
One of the friends, who did not want her name in print mentioned, said the first medical facility Blessing was taken to was Gabriel Hospital, before she was subsequently taken to St. Theresa Hospital \u2013 both in Bwari town.
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Speaking in a distraught tone, she said the NSCDC officer lost her life because she had lost so much blood before she was attended to at Bwari General Hospital where she was later confirmed dead.
\u201cIt is painful that we lost officer Blessing as she was fondly called due to a weaken and uncoordinated system,\u201d she said, adding \u201csomeone was dying and you insisted there there must be a police report before she was attended to.
\u201cHonestly, this is very sad to say the least. Besides, she\u2019s also a security personnel. We showed them her office identity card, they still didn\u2019t attend to her, hence the reason we were taking her from one place to another until she died.\u201d
When asked how she was stabbed, another friend explained that \u201cshe was on way somewhere and some persons wanted to rob her of her belongings. I guess they had to stab her to have their way.\u201d
When contacted, the spokesperson of the Nigerian police in the Federal Capital Territory Command, Josephine Adeh, referred our correspondent to the authorities of the NSCDC for official comment regarding the matter.
Adeh, a Superintendent of Police, noted that the reference became imperative because the matter was not reported to the police, saying NSCDC might likely carry out investigations on the matter on its own.
Similarly, NSCDC spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, told Daily Trust on phone that it is the FCT Command of the agency that would give official position and update on the matter.
But repeated calls to the Commandant of the NSCDC in the FCT Command, Olusola Odumosu, rang unanswered, and he was yet to respond to a text message sent to him as at when filing this report.
Meanwhile, commenting on the incident, Executive Director of the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC), Okechukwu Nwanguma, described as \u201cillegal and unethical\u201d for medical personnel to be waiting for police report in the case of emergencies.
\u201cThe fact that a victim of violence was abandoned to die while awaiting police paperwork speaks to a grave failure of both the healthcare and policing systems. This is not only heartbreaking but also in direct violation of Nigerian law,\u201d Nwanguma lamented.
He said Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 mandates all hospitals \u2014 public and private, to provide immediate and adequate care to victims of gunshot wounds or life-threatening injuries without demanding a police report as a precondition for treatment.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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