At least 20 people died from two separate road accidents that turned Sallah celebrations into mourning in many homes in Kwara state. The multiple accidents, involving about 10 vehicles in all, occurred within 72 hours and within a distance of two kilometres from the other along Ilorin-Bode Saadu-Jebba old Federal Highway. Sector Commandant of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Christopher Ademoluti confirmed the two incidents on Fridat to newsmen in Ilorin. Kwara State capital.
He was still on ground at the scene of the accidents with officers and men of the sector and the Oloru Unit led by Mr. M. Osilaja whilling this reports yesterday.
According to Ademoluti, the first accident occurred at Osin Village, on a portion of the Highway that has gone bad but which is still more motorable than the much celebrated Ilorin-Olooru-Jebba axis of the major highway that links Kwara with Niger and other states of the north. He said a commercial bus carrying passengers from Niger state had slowed down upon approaching the bad spot only for a truck behind it to run into it forcing it to crash and all the 16 passengers inside were crushed.
“The truck fell on the bus. We were able to get only one survivor from the bus. The driver of the truck also died”, he had said. Most of the deceased passengers, according to local sources, were to Gbadamu-Ologi village, Ilorin East local government. They were supposed to have gone to market in preparation for the Sallah. The crash also led to three other trailers running into one another on the spot. The second accident, which occurred early yesterday, was less than two kilometres from the scene of the first one and involved a commercial taxi and another trailer.
The trailer was also said to have run into the taxi on a slope and dragged it for several metres during which the taxi exploded in flames. All the three occupants in the taxi were burnt beyond recognition. Some sympathisers at the scene who claimed they were colleagues of the deceased taxi driver were seen making frantic calls to their union leaders over the incident.
They claimed that the deceased, whom they identified as Bashiru, had told them he was going to buy ram for the Sallah before heading for his hometown of Offa, with his family. Ademoluti appealed to the federal government to take urgent steps in addressing the issue of the Ilorin-Jebba road which he noted has become a dead trap for commuters. Corpses of the deceased had been deposited at the mortuary at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH).
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