Ifeanyi Okowa
It was pure chaos on Friday last week when the governor of Delta
State, Ifeanyi Okowa's convoy killed an elderly man in an accident.
The man was killed in Umutu community, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.
According to SaharaReporters, it was reliably learned that the
governor and his convoy were returning from the meeting of the Niger
Delta Coastal States in Warri, jointly convened by former Information
Minister Edwin Clark and Mr. Okowa, at around 5-6 PM when the accident
happened in Umutu community.
Some journalists who were in the convoy of the governor narrowly
escaped death during the accident but sustained severe injuries. The
driver of the vehicle, whose name was given as Isaac, was injured in the
accident.
Narrating the incident to SaharaReporters, a government house staff
who was in the convoy said that while returning from Warri after the
event, the government house press crew bus in the governor's convoy that
was carrying journalists and cameramen rammed into the elderly man who
was driving a pickup vehicle.
According to a source, the elderly man was rushed to Abraka
Hospital and then referred back to a hospital in Asaba where he died
following shortage of blood and severe injuries.
"The bus that killed the man was driven by one of our drivers
called Isaac. Several journalists and cameramen would have been dead by
now but God saved them. So many of them were seriously injured and taken
for treatment in government house clinic,” he said.
"Youths in the community almost unleashed terror on the convoy
but the presence of the governor and other top government officials
salvaged the situation which could have turned bloody. Governor Okowa
had to personally come down from his car to appease the people. The
driver as I talk to you now is still being detained in Asaba by the
police," our source stated.
According to SaharaReporters, one of the journalists in the convoy
who pleaded for anonymity revealed that the governor's convoy was in
high speed when the accident occurred, adding that the governor did not
caution his drivers to drive at a moderate, safe speed.
The source also disclosed that Mr. Okowa has concluded plans to
send a government delegation to the family of the deceased to open a
discussion on how to settle the matter for burial.
As at the time of filing in this report, several phone calls to the
Delta State Commissioner of Information Patrick Ukah for commentary
were rebuffed.
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