{"id":160355,"date":"2025-04-25T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:28:49","slug":"trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist","title":{"rendered":"TRACE denies involvement in death of Ogun motorcyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, has denied its involvement in the road accident that claimed the life of an unidentified private motorcyclist in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>The accident which occurred at about 5pm opposite Federal High Court, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, involved an orange and white articulated vehicle with the inscription A&amp;O.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle which was alleged to have been chased by TRACE officials ran over the motorcyclist while trying to run.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased who was rushed to Federal Medical Centre by road users, gave up the ghost before getting to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>However, the TRACE Public Relations Officer, Babatunde Akinbiyi, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday, stated that the incident was misrepresentation of fact and issues involved.<\/p>\n<p>Akinbiyi maintained that the officers were not chasing the articulated vehicle and its patrol vehicle was on the usual duty of patrolling the highway within the metropolis to ensure free flow of traffic and check.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that the truck on sighting the patrol vehicle, made a quick and unplanned right turn with speed towards SUBEB, and in the process ran into an unidentified private motorcycle rider from the back.<\/p>\n<p>Akinbiyi noted that in the process, several charms, devilish objects and soap fell off the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe regrettable incident in question, because it involves human life, is a misrepresentation of facts and issues involved. TRACE was neither chasing nor running after any articulated vehicle because we don\u2019t apprehend at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TRACE patrol vehicle in question was on its normal and usual duty of patrolling the highway within the metropolis to ensure free flow of traffic and check, as well as see to any safety concern that may lead to gridlock, obstruction and loss of man-hour, if not quickly attended to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, on sighting the TRACE patrol vehicle, which is the usual characteristics of articulated vehicle drivers, particularly those who have skeleton in their cupboards, the articulated vehicle driver under consideration, made a quick and unplanned right turn with speed towards SUBEB, and in the process ran into an unidentified private motorcycle rider from the back, with assorted charms, devilish objects and soap falling off the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the unidentified private motorcycle rider died at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, where he was rushed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he disclosed that the driver and the articulated vehicle have been apprehended and impounded at the Motor Traffic Division, Nigeria Police Force, Ibara, Abeokuta, for further investigation and likely prosecution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, has denied its involvement in the road accident that claimed the life of an unidentified private motorcyclist in Abeokuta. The accident which occurred at about 5pm opposite Federal High Court, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, involved an orange and white articulated vehicle with the inscription [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[254,386,14890],"class_list":["post-160355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria","tag-ogun","tag-trace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TRACE denies involvement in death of Ogun motorcyclist - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, has denied its involvement in the road accident that claime ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRACE denies involvement in death of Ogun motorcyclist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, TRACE, has denied its involvement in the road accident that claime ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-25T08:54:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-28T17:28:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745562460.512376.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1038\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"584\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TRACE denies involvement in death of Ogun motorcyclist\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-25T08:54:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-28T17:28:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\"},\"wordCount\":434,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745562460.512376.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Ogun\",\"TRACE\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/trace-denies-involvement-in-death-of-ogun-motorcyclist\",\"name\":\"TRACE denies involvement in death of Ogun motorcyclist - 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