Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Grace Usman Ezra and Jennifer Luka Giwa identified among 8 students who died in road accident while travelling to Taraba state.
About eight Madonna University students have reportedly died in a fatal accident while on their way to Taraba State.
According to reports gathered, the incident happened on Saturday, February 18th, 2023, when the students were said to have been sent home in the wake of the upcoming general elections.
A source who shared the information reports that the accident happened at TTC/Special Science school junction along the trans-Saharan road, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state.
The bus conveying the students was said to have caught a fire and got burnt beyond recognition.
After the accident eight have been reported dead while ten students have reportedly survived and were rushed to the Alex Ekwueme Teaching Hospital Hospital in Ebonyi State.
One of the parents of the deceased took to his page to express pain over the loss of his daughter. He wrote;
“Grace Usman Ezra, I never knew sending you to Madonna university will lead to your untimely death.18 of you left Madonna to Jalingo yesterday only to hear the news that your bus had an accident and caught fire, 8 out of 18 came out from the bus. It is well with 10 of you and the rest that are alive, I pray for your speedy recovery and may God comfort us all that lost our children.”
WHAT A HORRIFIC SCENE!!!
While returning from Nwezenyi, Igbeagu, Izzi, Ebonyi State, Nigeria this Sunday evening where I went to pick some people, I met this horrific scene at exactly TTC/Special Science School junction along the trans-Saharan road.
Actually, I also passed in the morning when I went to drop the people whom I went to pick this evening, but I didn’t observe the scene as there was no gathering of people there as the place was somehow deserted.
Seeing the crowd of persons with some army officers around the burnt vehicle, I decided to park my car by the roadside and came out to find out what really happened. I was told that the accident occurred yesterday twilight being Saturday, 18th February, 2023.
After asking some persons there who all declined telling me what really happened, I met the soldiers who accompanied the relatives from Taraba State, directly to ask them what happened with the burnt vehicle.
They briefed me that the bus was coming from Port-Harcourt, conveying some students from Madonna University with some of the parents who are returning to Taraba State for a break due to upcoming elections.
The story further has it that 8 students/a parent are the chelated bodies/ashes that were burnt beyond recognition. And about 7 persons in bad conditions who are currently at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, escaped from the bus when it caught fire after having head-on collision with a Siena car.
Nawa o! It was such a horrific scene I’ve never seen before now since I was born up to date!
Yes, among the major causes of this kind of accident is over-speeding and distractions mainly due to intermittent sleep while driving.
May drivers- whether private or commercial, take this to heart. May people also restrict travellings especially these days, to avert some of these “unexpected events” which the Bible says “overtake all”.
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