EXCLUSIVE: Engineer Accuses UNICEF Of Abandonment, Neglect After Suffering Severe Injuries On Official Duty

Virtually two years after surviving a devastating twin carriageway accident whereas on reliable responsibility for UNICEF Nigeria, the engineer says he has been left to contend by myself with power trouble, habitual seizures, and financial hardship, reduce off from the organisation he served for years.

For a UNICEF workers engineer identified by UN Index Number 72001863, along with his establish withheld for security and professional causes, the twin carriageway that once symbolised carrier to inclined communities has change into a prolonged-lasting reminder of trouble, neglect, and a lifestyles irreversibly altered. 

The UN Index Number is a explicit identification assigned to every UNICEF workers member and refers namely to the victim in this case.

Virtually two years after surviving a devastating twin carriageway accident whereas on reliable responsibility for UNICEF Nigeria, the engineer says he has been left to contend by myself with power trouble, habitual seizures, and financial hardship, reduce off from the organisation he served for years.

The victim acknowledged he joined UNICEF on March 18, 2019, and labored across high-risk and stressful areas, along with Maiduguri in Borno Pronounce, Jos in Plateau Pronounce, and Abuja. His duties required frequent slouch back and forth to some distance flung websites to supervise and assess civil engineering tasks very crucial to UNICEF’s humanitarian interventions.

“My nature of job is to show screen and review all civil engineering dwelling tasks along with project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and support watch over and closure,” he acknowledged.

That dedication virtually value him his lifestyles on March 14, 2024.

He acknowledged he became getting back from Jos after monitoring the building of a UNICEF-supported warehouse for the Plateau Pronounce Authorities when the accident came about along the Jos–Abuja Dual carriageway.

“The accident came about on March 14, 2024 on the twin carriageway linking Jos to Abuja… I became in a UN-marked reliable vehicle whereas UNICEF-engaged police escorts in a a form of vehicle equipped security duvet,” he recalled.

He became evacuated from the scene and rushed for emergency clinical treatment, having sustained severe accidents and trauma. On the inspiration, his clinical charges were covered by CIGNA, UNICEF’s workers insurance provider, funded via deductions from his wage alongside organisational contributions.

“They settled the clinical institution payments for my treatment except April 30, 2025,” he acknowledged.

Nonetheless, when the insurance protection ended, the engineer acknowledged institutional support ended with it. Per him, communication, topic, and the support of UNICEF ceased entirely.

“Since I became discharged from the clinical institution, I’ve been having seizures,” he acknowledged, noting that his condition deteriorated after his discharge.

Medical reports from Nizamiye Health center Small in Abuja detailed the extent of his accidents. A file dated June 25, 2024, documented severe neck and shapely shoulder trouble, restricted mobility, and imaging outcomes indicating “shapely shoulder subacromial impingement syndrome” and a “rotator cuff partial muscle creep.” 

Doctors concluded that non-surgical treatment might presumably be ineffective.

“Medical treatment and conservative treatment can not yield any accurate response in this roughly shoulder topic,” the clinical institution acknowledged, recommending a pair of surgical procedures estimated at ₦8.956 million.

In a subsequent clinical file dated November 11, 2025, the clinical institution acknowledged that the victim developed seizures following mind surgical treatment required attributable to accidents sustained in the accident.

“After surgical treatment he developed seizures which he is below antiepilectic medicines… Despite the indisputable fact that the patient became build below antiepilectic medications, peaceful he became having seizures,” the file acknowledged.

Doctors additionally instructed that he must peaceful no longer drive attributable to the risk of peculiar seizures, a restriction that has tremendously restricted his independence and mobility.

As his health declined, his professional profession additionally unraveled. His contract, which had been renewed in Abuja on March 9, 2023, became not extended following the accident.

“UNICEF has not paid my wage or equipped any compensation since I became injured in the twin carriageway of responsibility,” he acknowledged.

He extra alleged that the work he applied between March 15 and April 9, 2025, no topic his accidents and ongoing clinical treatment, became never remunerated.

“Even the work I did… ahead of the non-renewal of my contract became not paid for,” he acknowledged.

Rather than pension contributions remitted via his pension administrators, he acknowledged he obtained no develop of post-carrier help.

“There has been no present of topic by UNICEF to my successfully-being, both financially or humanly since the non-renewal of the contract,” he acknowledged.

He added that UNICEF later engaged two building specialists after his accident, whereas he remained injured, unemployed, and struggling to manage.

On the present time, his lifestyles revolves spherical clinical institution visits, medicines, and unsuccessful job applications. He disclosed that he became once interviewed for the enlighten of Managing Director at a multinational organisation, however the different did not materialise attributable to his clinical condition.

“I have been instructed by doctors now to not drive again on memoir of the accident,” he acknowledged, along with that his shapely shoulder remains stiff, painful, and can require extra surgical treatment.

For a talented who once travelled widely across Nigeria to make certain that the provide of important infrastructure tasks, the silence he now faces is profound. While the accident shattered his physique, he acknowledged it became the absence of compassion later on that ended in the deepest hurt.

Speaking to SaharaReporters, the injured engineer appealed to UNICEF to intervene in his case, stating that the neglect he has suffered after years of carrier and a severe hurt sustained whereas representing the organisation’s pursuits has tremendously altered the course of his lifestyles.