Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi (SAN), his wife
Blessing and their son yesterday died in a
ghastly motor accident on their way from
Kaduna to Abuja after attending a church
programme in Kaduna.
The accident, which occurred in a village
called Rijana, about 55 kilometres from
Kaduna, resulted from a tyre burst as they
drove in their Lexus Jeep LX570.
An eye witness told our correspondent at the scene of the accident that the vehicle
somersaulted several times and finally
landed in the bush, adding that the minister
and his son died instantly while the wife,
who fell into coma, later died in the hospital
where all efforts to resuscitate her failed.
One Danladi Ayuba, who witnessed the
accident, told our correspondent how it all
happened: “I was by the road side when all
of a sudden I heard a loud sound which, I
thought, was a bomb, only to discover that it was a noise from a burst tyre. Then I saw a black jeep somersaulting and it landed in the bush after it somersaulted several times.
“By the time we got there, we discovered
that the minister and another person
discovered later to be his son were already
dead; in fact, we thought the wife, too, died
then because she was not breathing, but
they were rushed to Doka General hospital
where the wife gave up the ghost.
“It was a bad experience. This road has
some bad potholes that really need to be
fixed to avoid this kind of accident because,
to me, I suspect the vehicle may have
entered one of those bad pot holes leading
to the tyre burst,” he said.
At the Doka General Hospital where the
victims were taken to, a medical personnel
at the hospital confirmed to our correspondent that “ the minister and the
son were brought in dead while five others
were brought in alive, but the wife of the
minister sustained internal injuries and
efforts to resuscitate her failed and she also
died while being resuscitated.
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