Jonathan’s motorcade rescues accident victims.

The advance team of President
Goodluck Jonathan’s entourage, returning from
Ado-Ekiti on Sunday rendered emergency
rescue services to accident victims on the
Lokoja-Abuja highway.
The accident which occurred at Okpu village,
few kilometres after Lokoja, involved two cars,
carrying 11 people.
A Nissan Almera car with registration number
AH 47 KAA going to Lokoja and a Honda
Accord car (Baby Boy) with registration
number BG945BWR en-route Abuja, were
involved in the accident.
The two vehicles had a head-on collision with
serious impact, causing varying degrees of
injury to the occupants of the vehicles.
The accident occurred few minutes before the
presidential motorcade came to the scene.
The security team in the convoy swung into
action by rescuing trapped victims in the two
cars.
The front door of the passenger seat of the
Nissan car was axed before a middle aged
woman, who was trapped inside, could be
rescued.
The medical team, led by Dr Aliyu Usman of
the State House Clinic, rendered emergency
medical treatment to the victims, aided by two
nurses.
A team of Federal Road Safety Commission
(FRSC), led by one Mohammed Haruna, came
to the scene of the accident about 30 minutes
into the rescue operation.
The victims were taken to the Federal Medical
Centre, Lokoja in an FRSC rescue van for
further medical attention.
An eye witness, Aliyu Sadiq, said that the
accident was caused by over-speeding,
dangerous driving and the poor state of the
road.
Sadiq appealed to the Federal Government to
expedite action on completing the dualisation
of the Lokoja-Abuja highway.
The eye witness, who is a commercial bus
driver, said he plied the road on daily basis,
adding that “there is a hardly a day that an
accident is not recorded on the road.” (NAN)