Promise Farotimi, 21, a 300-level Building Technology student at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), was k>lled when a heavy-duty truck struck a building while she was asleep.

The event took place at Oke-Ila in Aramoko-Ekiti on March 26, 2026.

Mr. Rufus Farotimi, the distraught father, has made an appeal to the relevant authorities in an effort to secure justice for his son.

In an interview with Hope Newspaper, the deceased’s father urged security services to apprehend the escaping truck driver and demand accountability from the business associated with the vehicle.

The distraught father said the accident has left him with nothing and called the loss of both his child and his house “devastating.”

“My son was the one k!lled, and I am the owner of the house. This accident has destroyed my house. I’ve lost my child and my shelter. I don’t even have clothes anymore; what I’m wearing was given to me by my younger brother,” he said.

He said the driver fled immediately after the crash, while residents apprehended the driver’s assistant, popularly known as an “operator boy.”

Farotimi added that documents recovered from the vehicle at the scene, including waybills, showed the truck was transporting natural gypsum and bore a company letterhead, identifying the driver as Shuaibu Yusuf.

While acknowledging that law enforcement officers evacuated his daughter’s body and commenced investigations, he lamented that the driver remains at large three days after the incident.

He urged authorities to intensify efforts to apprehend the suspect and called on the company linked to the truck to take responsibility.

“It has been three days, and no one has come to remove the vehicle. I am begging them to come and do what is necessary,” he said.

Farotimi also decried the poor state of the road, describing it as a long-standing hazard worsened by speeding heavy-duty vehicles.

“This road is very bad and always busy with heavy-duty vehicles, and they are always speeding,” he added.