Street sweeper’s body recovered in Lagos Lagoon 3 days after she was knocked off Third Mainland Bridge (Guardian)

A street sweeper Folasade Ogunniyi was knocked into a lagoon in Lagos State while she was performing her duty.

Her corpse was discovered and recovered from the lagoon underneath the 3rd Mainland Bridge on Friday, August 23, three days after she was killed by a hit-and-run driver.

Until her death, the late sweeper, a mother of three, was under the employment of by Highway Managers, an environment sanitation firm working in collaboration with the Lagos State Government.

On the day of the accident, Ogunniyi left her house in Oworonsoki area of Lagos about 5:30 a.m to her duty post- the ever-busy 3rd Mainland Bridge to sweep, her husband Sunday Ogunniyi told The Guardian. Read more