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— Angry residents, students artifact highway
—–We’re moving to forestall recurrence – Ondo CP
—Aiyedatiwa visits scene, condoles victims’ families
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
Protest rocked the agarian Akungba Akoko, successful Akoko South West assembly country of Ondo state, pursuing the decease of 10 persons successful an car crash.
Residents and students of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA), stormed the thoroughfare to protestation the incessant killings successful the community.
They took to the street, blocked the large road, prevented vehicular question and demanded a imperishable solution to the incessant crashes by dense work trucks on the highway.
The clang reportedly occurred other the fashionable Anglican Church erstwhile a dense work motortruck crashed connected residents aft a reported interruption failure.
Residents who were near mourning pursuing the crash, decried repeated cases of fatal motortruck crashes successful the past.
One of the locals, Akeem Bolaji, lamented the recurring calamity and pleaded with the authorities authorities to enactment urgently to forestall further nonaccomplishment of lives.
According to her m “The roadworthy is not safe. We witnessed this successful the past, truthful it shouldn’t person happened again,” the nonmigratory said. “A antheral mislaid his woman and son. Do you deliberation it is pleasant? Government should intervene quickly.”
Speaking connected the incident, enactment of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Joint Campus Council, Ondo State Axis, led by Comrade Adekanye Mayomi Adeboye, said that “the protestation was aimed astatine addressing the persistent menace of heavy-duty trucks plying the Ikare–Akungba road, which has continually led to tragic roadworthy accidents claiming guiltless lives, including those of our beloved students.
Adeboye said that “We are demanding that those progressive successful dismantling the barricades and collecting amerciable fees from motortruck drivers beryllium identified and brought to justice.
“Furthermore, NANS JCC Ondo Axis insists connected the contiguous restoration and imperishable reinforcement of the barricade to guarantee full regularisation of agelong and dense trucks on that axis.
“The information and lives of our students stay a apical precedence and non-negotiable. We telephone connected the Ondo State Government, information agencies, assemblage leaders, and each applicable stakeholders to basal with america arsenic we property for a lasting solution to this recurring tragedy. Enough is capable — the lives of our students indispensable beryllium protected.
The students further urged the authorities authorities to marque a proclamation informing trucks against utilizing the way henceforth.
Vanguard gathered that the protestation was intimately monitored by information operatives to guarantee it was not hijacked by hoodlums.
Meanwhile, the authorities constabulary commissioner, Adebowale Lawal, has assured residents of the assemblage that the Police Command was moving with different information agencies to reconstruct normalcy and forestall a recurrence of the fatal motortruck mishap that happened Wednesday night.
Lawal, who said this during an on-the-spot appraisal of the country connected Thursday, said the students and residents had conducted themselves peacefully contempt their grief.
He described their objection arsenic a “constructive and nonsubjective protest,” not an enactment of violence.
“I privation to close that content not that they are truly aggravated per se, but they person embarked connected peaceful protests. We person been discussing constructively and objectively with each other,” helium said.
The Commissioner explained that the Police had been engaging with the Students’ Union Government (SUG) of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), adjacent earlier the calamity occurred, arsenic portion of efforts to guarantee information and orderliness successful the area.
According to him “Before this incidental happened, I had been informed and discussed with the students’ enforcement members, the SUG president, and his co-executives.
“We agreed that they would embark connected a monitoring solution by themselves, which they started with my afloat support.
Lawal said that the motortruck progressive successful the clang had mislaid its brakes, starring to the mishap that threw the assemblage into mourning. He noted that the police, successful collaboration with different agencies, were connected the crushed to negociate the concern and guarantee safety.
“Two days ago, I was successful Akungba; yesterday, I was astatine Owo. We person been monitoring the concern here. I americium presently connected ground, and I person addressed the students and youths. I person assured them that I volition stay present till the barricade is refixed,” helium said.
The Police Commissioner said t...
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