Egba high chief, two others die in multiple auto crash

ABEOKUTA — An Egba High Chief and Senior Lecturer at Ogun  State-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Dr. Gbenga Dally and two other persons lost their lives in a multiple road crash, Wednesday evening,  along the Abeokuta/Sagamu road.

Six passengers were also said to have been rushed to the state hospital following the various degrees of injury they sustained in the  accident.
Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred about 30 kilometres to Abeokuta, near Onipepeye village at about 6.25p.m and involved  three vehicles— a Toyota Camry  car with number plate LAGOS AAA 181 AA in which the late   Akinfimogboye of Egbaland, drove.

One of the carsin the bush. Photos: Wumi Akinola.

It was further gathered that one of the vehicles involved in the accident skidded off the road after the driver lost control on his way to Lagos and crossed the culvert, facing another oncoming vehicle.
Further findings showed that the Egba chief, who was returning from the university, on getting to the scene attempted to avoid a head-on collision  but an  articulated truck crushed his car from behind.
The development was said to have led to the instant death of Dally and two others whose cars had part of  their  roofs  smashed.
Confirming the accident, Head of Operations, Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Cecilia Alao, said   yesterday, that the accident involved three vehicles and eight persons.
She said a Toyota Camry car with number plate LAGOS AAA 181 AA, Mitsubishi Space wagon OGUN LAR 55 XA and Honda car with number plate LAGOS KSF 224 AT, collided due to over speeding.
Alao added that the remains of the victims had been deposited at Ijaye General Hospital, Abeokuta, adding that six persons who sustained various degrees of injury were also receiving treatment at the hospital.
She appealed to motorists to exercise patience and apply what she described as “common sense speed limit” while on the highway.
Among the first prominent callers at the scene included the state Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi; the state Commissioner for Commerce, Mr. Bimbo  Ashiru and Adviser to the Governor on Political Matters, Mr. Adesanya .
At the school owned by the late  don, along the Abeokuta/Sagamu road, staff and students wept uncontrollably as the news  of his death was broken, yesterday.

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FG explains grounding of Kenyan Airline

THE Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, said, yesterday, that a Kenyan aircraft has been grounded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, since June 3. The agency said the aircraft violated the country’s security procedures.
General Manager, Public Affairs of FAAN, Yakubu Dati, who spoke with newsmen in Ikeja said: “The aircraft which landed at the MMIA at about 6.36 p.m. with 18 passengers, including three deportees from Kenya did not follow laid down procedures.”
He added that officials of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and some security officials discovered some lapses during routine checks and that the DC-9 aircraft marked 5Y-SAS, belongs to Cavok Airlines.
Dati, however, explained that “the aircraft will be released immediately the security personnel complete their checks.”
It will be recalled that an aircraft belonging to a Kenyan citizen flew into the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport without proper documentation, Monday, June 3 and was grounded by the Nigerian aviation authorities.
According to aviation sources, the pilot, apart from failing to file proper flight schedule, falsely declared that the plane was on a diplomatic mission, as it was later found to belong to a Kenyan citizen. The jet was said to have brought a deported Nigerian based in Kenya, over the allegation of matrimonial crisis with his Kenyan wife.