Jonathan’s Motorcade Rescues Accident Victims

The president’s convoy helped the injured
in Ekiti state
The advance team of President Goodluck
Jonathan’s entourage, returning from Ado-
Ekiti on Sunday rendered emergency rescue
services to accident victims on the Lokoja-
Abuja highway, witnesses say.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported
that the accident, which occurred at Okpu
village, few kilometres after Lokoja, involved
two cars carrying 11 people.
A Nissan Almera car with registration
number AH 47 KAA going to Lokoja and a
Honda Accord model with registration
number BG945BWR en-route Abuja, were
involved in the accident.
The two vehicles had a head-on collision
with serious impact, causing varying
degrees of injury to the occupants of the
vehicles.
The accident occurred few minutes before
the presidential motorcade came by the
scene, NAN reported. Mr Jonathan was in
Ekiti state over the weekend on an official
visit.
As the convoy arrived, the president’s
security team rescued victims trapped in
the two cars.
The front door of the passenger seat of the
Nissan car was axed before a middle aged
woman, who was inside, could be rescued.
The medical team, led by Dr Aliyu Usman of
the State House Clinic, rendered emergency
medical treatment to the victims, aided by
two nurses.
Later, a team of the Federal Road Safety
Commission, FRSC, led by one Mohammed
Haruna, arrived the scene of the accident
about 30 minutes into the rescue
operation.
The victims were taken to the Federal
Medical Centre, Lokoja, in an FRSC rescue
van for further medical attention.
An eye witness, Aliyu Sadiq, said that the
accident was caused by speed, dangerous
driving and the poor state of the road.
The eye witness, who is a commercial bus
driver, said he plied the road on daily basis,
and that there was hardly a day that an
accident is not recorded on the road.
(NAN)
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