The management of
the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has confirmed the death of the three of its
lecturers in the tragic road crash that occurred along Benin-Agbor
expressway,
at Abudu village, Edo State last Thursday.
Twenty-two persons
reportedly died in the accident while five others were taken to the hospital
for treatment.
Two commercial Toyota
hummer buses, one Dyna truck, one petrol-carrying tanker, one Toyota Sienna,
one ford bus, one Toyota Corolla and one motorcycle were involved in the
mishap.
The three lecturers
were in the Department of Pharmacy and that they were returning from Awka, the
Anambra State capital. Then university’s management gave the names of the
deceased lecturers as Prof. Lucky Okunrobo, Head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry;
Dr. Godwin Joseph, acting Head of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Dr. Saturday
Idemudia, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology.
A statement by
UNIBEN’s Public Relation Officer (PORO), Mr. Micheal Osasuyi, said Vice
Chancellor, Prof. Faraday Orunmwense, expressed shock over the death of the
three lecturers.
The statement said
Osasuyi commiserated with families of the deceased. Also, the lecturers and
other victims of the accident have been given a mass burial near the site of
the accident.
The PRO of the State
Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) George Otoaviokhai said
the victims were buried last Saturday as their families could not identify
their charred remains.
Source: The Nation
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