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Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has blamed the road crash involving ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, to deep-rooted institutional failures in Nigeria.
Sowore said this on Tuesday in a post on his verified X handle, condoling with the families of those who died in the road crash.
According to him, the accident, which claimed the lives of Joshua’s associates, should not be overshadowed by the survival of the global sports icon.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, stated that their deaths must not be reduced to mere footnotes in the survival of a celebrity, adding that the attention generated by the incident should compel national reflection and responsibility.
“These kinds of fatal accidents are the daily, naked reality of a nation that has failed failed in small things and in big ones alike.
“A country where road safety agencies and the police cannot provide even the most basic first aid. Where there are no stretchers, no functional ambulances, and certainly no air ambulances. Where people die not only from accidents, but from institutional neglect,” he wrote.
Sowore blames Anthony Joshua car crash on ‘systemic failures’
