- The sources said the passengers were thrown off by the impact of trailers fall and trapped under it till Friday morning
A ghastly road accident in Oyo State has reportedly claimed the lives of four persons.
Many others also sustained varying degrees of injuries during the mishap which happened along the old Oyo-Ogbomosho Road.
The accident, it was gathered, happened on Thursday night when a trailer fell into a ditch at the Emaayo-Seminary area in Ogbomosho.
Sources familiar with the development disclosed that the trailer was travelling from Oyo towards Ilorin when it ran into a terribly damaged section of the road.
The sources said the passengers were thrown off by the impact of trailers fall and trapped under it till Friday morning.
The new Ibadan-Oyo-Ogbomosho-Ilorin expressway has been under construction since 2001.
An Ogbomoso indigene who identified himself as Kolapo said: “Several appeals have been made to governments and other relevant agencies at both state and federal levels to repair the road in a standard way and ensure the new Ibadan-Ilorin highway is completed. But they have turned deaf ears, unresponsive and unconcerned about what people go through.”
“The damaged portion within Ogbomoso metropolis is less than 500 metre long, yet, despite the cries for government’s intervention spanning almost a year now, it has not received attention. Several communal interventions have only offered temporary relief.”
He further accused the state government of neglecting Ogbomosho, saying: “The Oyo-Iseyin road is a federal government road; its reconstruction was executed by the present Oyo State government when the Federal Government refused to do so. That is a road stretching tens of kilometres. Why can’t the state government come to our rescue in this one too, a stretch that’s less than 500m?”