Four persons have reportedly died from a fatal accident involving a Toyota Hilux conveying a detachment of vigilantes, accompanying Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, while enroute Mubi for a campaign engagement.
The accident which occurred around Fadamareke, in Hong Local Government, allegedly linked to overspeeding while negotiating a dangerous bend, involved a RAMP 2 Toyota Hilux van used by Head of Fintiri’s vigilante.
Last week Saturday, two policemen were injured with one of them unconscious as Fintiri escaped unhurt after a truck crushed two vehicles in his convoy. The incident happened shortly after the governor and some of his commissioners entered a black Mercedes bus at the end of a wedding at Agga mosque in Dougirei highbrow area of Yola, the state capital.
Three lifeless bodies of occupants in the van that includes Bako Kaura, head of PDP’s informal security arm and another victim identified as Adamu, Kaura’s biological son have been deposited at the mortuary of Hong Federal Medical Centre.
In the latest incident, five other occupants in the van who sustained various degree of injuries, were conveyed in the government house ambulance and another unmarked Hilux van, for treatment in a health facility. Fintiri’s personal physician and head of the government house clinic, Dr William Teri, who was among the first responders at the crash also conveyed the victims to a hospital for treatment.
A source at the scene of the accident who helped with the evacuation and rescue effort, however, said: “I took out three lifeless bodies, but there’s a fourth that I think can hardly make it out of coma because of the injury he sustained. There were about nine occupants in the Ramp 2 Hilux van the head of vigilantes for Fintiri/Farauta campaign involved in the accident was traveling in”.
Fintiri, who also helped to coordinate rescue activities, was disturbed by tragic death involving his convoy.
Two policemen who sustained fatal injuries from the crash, were rushed to intensive care unit of the state specialist hospital.
