Suraj
Adekunbi, the speaker of Ogun state house of Assembly on Saturday shunned
victims of a ghastly accident which occurred along the Owode-Siun-Abeokuta
expressway. The accident that claimed three lives, and injured 10 others.
The crash which occurred at Onipepeye village, along the Owode-Siun-Abeokuta dual carriageway,
involved two commercial vehicles: a white Nissan Premiere, with registration
number LSD 770 BZ and a green Space wagon, with registration number GGE
It was reported
that Speaker Adekunbi got to the scene of the crash in his official car barely
few minutes after the accident occurred, but drove past the scene even while
bodies laid on bare ground and injured victims wreathed in pains.
He was in a
convoy of his official cars, reportedly heading towards Lagos.
Onlookers
wondered why he failed to demonstrate compassion and lend helping hands to the
victims.
Witnesses
say rather than help the Speaker merely
peeped at the accident scene through his car window and then ordered his driver
to drive on.
The
Speaker’s action baffled many sympathizers at the scene, who could not suppress
their anger, some of whom rained abuses on him as his car drove away.
The speaker
could not be reached to comment on this story last night. He did not
answer or return multiple calls to his telephone seeking comments.
At the
scene, a lucky survivor said that the Premiera car was heading to Sagamu
from Abeokuta when the driver suddenly lost control and swerved to the other
side of the dual carriageway.
It then had
a head-on collision with the oncoming Space wagon car, heading to Abeokuta from
Lagos.
The impact
of the crash was disastrous as the two cars appeared to be over-speeding.
Three
persons, including a toddler, died on the spot, while other passengers suffered
varying degrees of injuries.
A team of
Ogun State Traffic and Compliance Control arrived the scene early enough and
were seen evacuating the victims to hospital.
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