The vehicle driven by late Mukaila Inakakana, after it fell off a bridge due to the alleged dangerous driving of the Ebonyi State governor’s convoy along Kubwa expressway in Abuja Tuesday. Inset is the remains of the motorist being prayed for at the National Mosque in Abuja yesterday.
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A motorist skidded off an Abuja flyover bridge on Tuesday as he was jolted by the convoy of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi.
Witnesses said the motorist identified as Mukaila Inakakana fell into a ditch from the flyover bridge near Setraco before the NNPC substation on the Kubwa Expressway and no vehicle among the convoy stopped after the accident.
A witness, Genevieve Alonsus, said the convoy of the Ebonyi State governor was involved in the accident though he could not say if the convoy actually hit the vehicle.
But the Gwarinpa Police Station’s Divisional Police Officer, Chief Superintendent Hayatu Shafa, said the driver was jolted by the convoy’s siren and veered off the flyover bridge into a ditch. He said the driver was trying to avoid the convoy, adding that they did not stopped after the incident leaving the man trapped in the vehicle.
Another witness, simply identified as Smith, said a crane was used to lift the vehicle from the ditch while sympathisers among the crowd that gathered at the scene assisted in removing the injured man from the vehicle.
“An oncoming police van was waved down and used to convey the injured man to the Maitama General Hospital from where he was referred to the Trauma Centre at National Hospital. He was alive when his daughter came to meet us at the hospital,” he said.
A relation, Mallam Yakubu Inakakana said the man died at the Trauma Centre yesterday morning.
He however expressed dissatisfaction over reactions of officers from the Ebonyi State Liaison Office in Abuja.
“The liaison office said the governor was not liable because there was no contact with the vehicle but they knew that the siren scared him,” Yakubu said.
He said the liaison office said the governor who was in a vehicle among the convoy could not stop because he was rushing for a meeting and there was no back up vehicle among the three vehicles in his convoy.
He explained that the officer whom he spoke to on phone that identified himself as the protocol officer said the governor will be contacted to “see what he can do about the issue based on humanitarian ground.” The Protocol Officer of the Ebonyi State Liaison Office in Abuja could not be reached as his phone line was switched off as at press time.
When contacted, the Head Media, National Hospital, Tayo Hastrup failed to get back to our reporter as he promised.
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Relations of the deceased said he was buried yesterday at about 12:30p.m, according to Islamic rites at the Gwarinpa Cemetery after a funeral prayer was observed at the National Mosque.
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