Trailer Crushes Four-month-old Widow, Two Daughters to Death in Oyo’s Dilapidated Federal Road

In the constituency Hon. Ayodeji Alao, son of former and deceased Oyo State Governor Alao Akala and Senator Abdulfatahi Buhari is representing, a widowed mother and her two daughters have met with their unprecedented end on Wednesday night after being crushed to death by a trailer at Apake area of Ogbomoso, Oyo State.

 

The accident which occurred as a result of the completely dilapidated Ogbomoso-Oyo road, had the three killed instantly while the trailer driver was trying to avoid potholes, an eyewitness who would not love to be named for the fear of unknown, gave the account.

 

Interestingly, Senator Buhari visited Ogbomoso last week to commission a mosque project but cannot find lasting solution to the long overdue completely destroyed Oyo-Ogbomoso Federal road. These mentioned communities fall under the Oyo North Senatorial district, Senator Buhari is representing at the 10th Assembly.

 

Ogbomoso Insight, a local newspaper within the area, reported that the trend of trailer-induced killings has been incessant in Ogbomoso and the one of Wednesday night, was not an exception.

 

Prince Adebayo Temitope, also known as Tope Margie, a notable chef in Ogbomoso and Guinness World Record Holder, expressed his displeasure over the accident, describing it as the only visible effect of bad road within the axis.

 

In a series of post with distressing images of the accident, Prince Temitope posted, “If you used to buy dokunu “Ghanaian food” from the woman beside Bovas filling station at takie area of Ogbomoso a trailer has killed her with her two daughters this morning. She died with her two kids because of the bad road in Ogbomoso.”

 

In another post, he wrote “Another tragedy in Ogbomoso as trailer killed a woman and her two kids along Apake road, it was learnt that around August this year a trailer had killed the husband of this same woman along caretaker road in Ogbomoso. This is the result of the bad road we’ve been begging you politicians to please help us fix.”

 

Worthy of note, according to the Ogbomoso Insight, the three, the mother whose name is given simply as Kudirat and her two daughters Mariam (13 years) and Azeezat (10 years) were said to be returning from their banku’s (corn meal variety that originated from Ghana) selling stall at Takie when they met with the cruel fate.

The report says the deceased left their shop at Takie at about 11pm and were going back to their residence at Nana river/Atenda area on a commercial motorcycle when the accident occured.

 

The motorcyclist overtook an articulated vehicle (trailer) as he descended the Takie slope. “But as he made to complete the overtaking and return to his lane at the Polaris Bank area, the trailer swerved to avoid a pothole and in the process hit the motorcycle which made the woman and the two daughters to be thrown off into the path of the trailer and were driven over by the trailer,” Ogbomoso Insight report says.

 

“The three were crushed brutally. However, the motorcyclist escaped unhurt while the trailer driver also sped off, he was pursued but he made his escape,” it was added.

 

The deceased mother, further information by Ogbomoso Insight revealed, was also an hair-dresser, with her shop in front of her residence and sold banku all through morning till evening. “At about 5-6pm Mariam would take further consignment of banku to Takie and by 7:30 her sister would join her, then the mother would join later and would sell the meal till about 11:00pm,” a neighbour informed.

 

“She was very hardworking; she had lost her husband and was always working morning till night. She would wake up as early as 4:30am to start preparing the banku. As she sold the banku at home she would attend to clients who wanted to plait their hair. She left a small kid. It is really tragic,” the neighbour stated.

 

It was added that the usual motorcyclist that picked the trio was unavailable yesterday and sent someone else to perform the duty, which unfortunately ended disastrously.

 

The bodies have been deposited at a mortuary, it was said.

 

Residents have been calling attention of governments both federal and state to come to their rescue by rehabilitating the badly damaged major trunk A road that passes through the city. There have also been calls that the road be dualized within the metropolis to reduce cases of head-on collisions which often is provoked due to dangerous overtaking that often occurs.

 

“Let’s pray the blood of the innocent people dying will make them see reason,” a resident, Kola Adekunle, submitted.

 

Editor’s Note: PIJAlance intentionally blurred and erased the parts of the accident images, showing the broken craniums and scattered brains of the accident victims for the sake of audience discretion, our editorial standard and Google’s policy.

 

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