I was about popping out of my house, when someone brought my attention to this newsreport.
Also reported in the Guardian here
Governor Mimiko Rescues Accident Victims
Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Saturday night rescued three accident victims who were trapped in the wreckages of two Toyota Hiace buses involved in a head-on-collision.
The two commercial buses, a light blue Toyota Hiace bus with registration number ONDO AR737AKR, collided with a white Toyota Hiace with registration number: ONDO XF425NND at a sharp bend near the Owena dam bridge, leaving several people trapped.
Both buses were coming from opposite directions before they ran into each other at top speed.
A few minutes after the accident which, according to eye witnesses, occurred due to over speeding, the governor’s convoy, which was coming from Akure, the Ondo State capital, to the governor’s home town Ondo, got to the scene.
On sighting the accident, Mimiko ordered his convoy to stop while he came down and moved to the scene of the accident.
Dr. Mimiko ordered that they be taken in one of the cars in his convoy to the General Hospital, Ondo town which was closer to the scene of the accident than Akure.
And then the person quipped (paraphrasing) :
“ so typical, plays the caring-governor without any word, or action on the bigger and far more important task of analyzing why such accident happen so frequently, with a view to resolving or eliminating it…”
I couldn’t agree more
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