"Seven students from Kano lost their lives on Tuesday morning, along
Ibadan–Lagos express way in a road accident, believed to have been
caused by burst tyre.
The students, Ahmed Faisal, Kamal Muhammad
and Abubakar Abdullahi, are from Kano Capital School while Umar Musa,
Sani Musa, Ibrahim Sani and Yusuf Danladi came from Unity College,
Karaye, in the state.
Others who
lost their lives in the accident are Aminu Abdullahi, the driver of
their ill-fated bus and Mr. Okafor, a staff of FrieslandCampina WAMCO
Nigeria Plc. Three other students however, sustained various degrees of
injury.
The contingent was returning in a bus, belonging to a
public secondary school in Kano, from a National schools quiz
competition organized by FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, the
producers of Peak Milk, in Lagos.
Briefing parents of the victims
at the Government House, Kano today (Wednesday), the state governor,
Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje described the incident as shocking saying it
has affected the entire state.
“On getting information about the
accident, I immediately called the governor of Oyo state who got
personally involved and even visited the hospital to see the injured. We
have also arranged for the injured and the deceased to be transported
to Kano this evening by air”, the governor soberly declared.
Describing the late students as heroes who were on a mission to do the
state proud, Governor Gandjue urged their parents to take sole in the
fat that all mortals will inevitably die.
He prayed Almighty
Allah to grant the deceased eternal rest and to stand by the bereaved as
they mourn the loss of their beloved children who died in their
formative years.
Also speaking, the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Special Duties and immediate past chairman of the state
Council of Ulama, Shiekh Ibrahim Khalil quoted copiously from the Holy
Qur’an and hadith to comfort and placate parents and relatives of the
deceased, whom he described as martyrs.
Meanwhile, the governor
led a delegation of politicians, top civil servants, parents and other
family members to receive corpses of the victims who were brought to the
state capital on board AZMAN Air, at Malam Aminu Kano International
Airport, to hasten their burial according to Islamic rites.
They will be buried tomorrow at the Tarauni graveyard after the funeral prayer at the Emir of Kano's palace by 9am"
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