By OLA AJAYI
IBADAN—Four days after a tragedy claimed the lives of seven traders in Ibadan, four men of the Oyo State Government security outfit, Operation Burst, yesterday, died while four other civilians sustained injuries when their van collided with a private car.
Those that died in the accident were policemen and soldiers who were joined to check criminality in the state.
The fatal accident happened on Mokola-Sango road when the vehicle of the securitymen lost control after negotiating a bend and skidded off the road.
After losing control of the vehicle, the driver hit an electric pole before it crossed its lane and faced the car heading towards University of Ibadan.
The Public Relations Officer of the Oyo State Command, DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor, said: “One Police Inspector, Adebola Apata, Lance Corporal Bola, a female, and one private soldier, Oneh, died, while “Police Corporals Bello Kayode and George Adeyemo and Sergeant Abdullahi Mannir (soldier) as well as the driver of the private vehicle and the cyclist were injured.”
Meanwhile, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, according to reports, immediately rushed to University College Hospital, Ibadan, where the victims were taken to. Ajimobi, after emerging from the Emergency Ward of the hospital, said the government would foot the medical bills of those injured.
He was accompanied by the General Officer Commanding, 2 Mechanised Division, Nigerian Army, Ibadan, Major-General M.D. Abubakar; state Director of State Security Service,SSS, Mr. Charles Ugwu; state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin; Chief of Staff, Dr. Adeolu Akande and other top government officials.
Culled: Vanguard
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