BY BEN MEMULETIWON With Agency Report
Minister of Youth sand Sports Development, Solomon Dalung Saturday cheated death by the whiskers. The ministers convoy was involved in a ghastly auto crash in Gombe State when a Peugeot 406 car rammed into the minister’s motorcade leading to the death of one person while 20 others sustained various degree of injuries.
Sunday Jika, the Officer-in-Charge (OC) Gombe State Marshal, a local security outfit, who was in the minister’s motorcade ,confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday in Gombe.
““We received the minister at the airport and on our way back to town a Peugeot 406 car entered the motorcade of the minister hitting the pilot car,” Sunday said.
“”The Peugeot car went ablaze. We were able to bring out three persons from the Peugeot car while the driver got burnt in the car.
““In the other bus among the minister’s motorcade, we also brought out people. All the injured persons have been taken to Gombe Specialist Hospital and Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) Gombe.”
A NAN correspondent, who was at the Specialist Hospital and FTH, saw doctors attending to patients at the casualty department of the hospital.
When contacted, Dr Zainab Kaltungo, Deputy Medical Director FTH Gombe declined comment.
When contacted on phone, Dr. Godwin Omiko, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), said he was yet to be briefed on the accident. (NAN)
Meanwhile, Senior Special Assistant to the minister Nneka Anibeze confirmed the accident to The Crest saying: “Please, thank God for us! The convoy of the Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung was involved in a fatal accident in Gombe. The Minister is unhurt. Thank you Lord…”
