Fatal
Accident: Patience Jonathan commiserates with Bayelsa, victims’ families.
The First Lady, Patience Jonathan,
on Sunday commiserated with the Bayelsa Government over the death of some
prominent women leaders from the state in an auto crash.
A statement by her Media Assistant,
Ayo Adewuyi, in Abuja said the women died in a motor accident around Elele in
Rivers on Saturday.
The First Lady prayed that the
Almighty God grant the souls of the
deceased eternal rest
and also to give the families the fortitude to
bear the irreparable loss.
The Bayelsa Sector Commander of the
Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Vincent Jack, explained that nine persons
were burnt to death, two died without burns, while many others who sustained
injuries were rushed to Madonna clinic in the area.
According to him, the accident
occurred when the tyres of a Toyota Sienna burst and rammed into the bus
carrying the women. The bus, which had the inscription of Women For Change, an
organisation sponsored by the First Lady, subsequently went up in flames.
A former councillor in Ogbia Local
Government Area, Gbaregolo Eseimokumo, listed some of the victims as Consider
Amadi, a former women leader in Ogbia; Clara Abila, a grassroots politician; Immaculate
Amasimua, former Commissioner at the Civil Service Commission in Bayelsa; and
Elisabeth Oguru, wife of the Secretary to the State Government.
Others are Zimbra Goma, former
Commissioner for Women Affairs; Ruby Benjamin, former House of Assembly member
representing Brass Constituency 1 in Bayelsa; amongst others.
A security official said all the
women in the bus, but one, were killed. The survivor is receiving medical
attention.
The women were said to have paid a
two-day solidarity visit to the first lady in Okirika, Rivers State.
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