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Monday, February 18, 2013

Family Of Murdered Nigerian Doctor, Irawo Adamolekun Decries Poor Health System...

The recent murder of Irawo Adamolekun, a young medical doctor, by armed robbers in Lagos, spikes the woes of a family that had earlier lost another promising son in similar circumstances

On 11 January, OSB Adamolekun, an orthopedic surgeon and Colonel in the Nigerian Army, was on a United Nations peace mission to Darfur, Sudan. He was helping to restore sanity to that turbulent region. Unfortunately, that day, his own peace was shattered into smithereens when he received a sad news from Nigeria: one of his stars had been dimmed. His son, Irawo (meaning star) was murdered in broad daylight along the busy Ikorodu Road, Lagos.
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Family Of Murdered Nigerian Doctor, Irawo Adamolekun Decries Poor Health System...

The recent murder of Irawo Adamolekun, a young medical doctor, by armed robbers in Lagos, spikes the woes of a family that had earlier lost another promising son in similar circumstances

On 11 January, OSB Adamolekun, an orthopedic surgeon and Colonel in the Nigerian Army, was on a United Nations peace mission to Darfur, Sudan. He was helping to restore sanity to that turbulent region. Unfortunately, that day, his own peace was shattered into smithereens when he received a sad news from Nigeria: one of his stars had been dimmed. His son, Irawo (meaning star) was murdered in broad daylight along the busy Ikorodu Road, Lagos.

The deceased, a medical doctor like his father, had just finished his morning duty at Osuntuyi Medical Centre, Obanikoro, Lagos. He was driving home in his Kia Sephia car when he was shot on the forehead by a gunman wearing a three-quarter length short who bolted immediately on a waiting motorbike.

For some minutes, pandemonium erupted and the young doctor was left alone with no emergency attention. With that gunshot, everyone around that axis, including police traffic wardens and men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, fled the scene. But before help could come his way, Irawo, 26, had lost so much blood and was brought in dead to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. The social media went abuzz, including a Twitter message from Nigerian rap artiste, Ruggedman, who claimed to have witnessed the gruesome murder. The manner of his death angered family and friends, including the deceased’s father.

The task of breaking the news to Irawo’s mother, a nurse based in Boston, United States who was holidaying in Nigeria, fell on the lap of Ojia, also a medical doctor and Irawo’s elder sister, who was away on official duty in Abuja. 

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