Okowa's Convoy Kills Elderly Man As Journalists Escape Death
Anarchy broke out on Friday a week ago when Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa's caravan killed an elderly man in Umutu people group, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.SaharaReporters dependably discovered that the representative and his guard were coming back from the meeting of the Niger Delta Coastal States in Warri, mutually assembled by previous Information Minister Edwin Clark and Mr. Okowa, at around 5-6 PM when the mishap happened in Umutu people group.
It was accumulated that columnists who were in the escort of the senator barely got away demise amid the mischance however supported serious wounds. The driver of the vehicle, whose name was given as Isaac, was harmed in the mishap.
Portraying the episode to SaharaReporters, an administration house staff who was in the escort said that while coming back from Warri after the occasion, the administration house press team transport in the senator's caravan that was conveying writers and cameramen slammed into the elderly man who was driving a pickup vehicle.
As indicated by our source, the elderly man was hurried to Abraka Hospital and afterward alluded back to a healing center in Asaba where he kicked the bucket taking after deficiency of blood and serious wounds.
"The transport that slaughtered the man was driven by one of our drivers called Isaac. A few writers and cameramen would have been dead at this point however God spared them. So huge numbers of them were genuinely harmed and taken for treatment in government house facility," he said.
"Adolescents in the group just about unleashed dread on the caravan however the nearness of the senator and other top government authorities rescued the circumstance which could have turned bleeding. Representative Okowa needed to by and by descend from his auto to conciliate the general population. The driver as I converse with you now is as yet being confined in Asaba by the police," our source expressed.
One of the columnists in the guard who argued for obscurity told SaharaReporters that the senator's escort was in rapid when the mischance happened, including that the representative did not alert his drivers to drive at a moderate, safe pace.
Our source additionally uncovered that Mr. Okowa has finished up arrangements to send an administration appointment to the group of the perished to open a dialog on the most proficient method to settle the matter for entombment.
As at the season of recording in this report, a few telephone calls to the Delta State Commissioner of Information Patrick Ukah for editorial were repelled.
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