Eyewitnesses have been left stunned after a police officer suddenly slumped on the road and died while waiting for a bus home.
Commuters have been left in shock after a police man slumped and died at Berger roundabout, Abuja, while waiting to board a vehicle to Nyanya on Monday morning.
The man who was dropped at the bus stop to board a bus home suddenly slumped and died while waiting for the vehicle. The incident caused many to panic.
It was gathered that the police officer was in mufti when the incident took place. According to witnesses, the man was taken to the popular roundabout on a motorcycle with another police officer whom they identified as his brother.
“It was while they were waiting for another vehicle that he slumped and was jerking before he later died. The corpse was laid at the back of a newspaper stand,” one of the bus drivers told City News.
The driver, who would not want to be named, said the other policeman went and mobilised his colleagues in three police vans who later evacuated the corpse.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Utako Police Station, CSP Nwankeneme Eze, said the man was an officer with the command and had closed from his post around Berger on his way to Nyanya when the incident happened.
The man until his death was healthy. His corpse has been deposited at the mortuary. When contacted, the FCT Police Command spokesman, DSP Anjuguri Manzah said he was not aware of the incident.