Posted on: 09:11 Mon, 30 Nov 2015



Tragedy struck on Sunday morning
as a truck crushed a pastor, Ojo
Mattew, and a commercial okada
rider to death on Oyero Road, Ijoko,
in the Ifo Local Government Area of
Ogun State.

It was learnt that the motorcyclist,
Ayo Nugbohoyon, was taking the
pastor to a church when the both of
them were crushed by a truck
conveying cement and asbestos.

The truck pushed them into the path
of an oncoming Toyota Camry car
with a Lagos number carrying five
members of a family, who were also
going to church.

The driver of the car, identified as
Samuel, and his family members –
wife and three children – reportedly
sustained injuries and were rushed
to a hospital in the area. The car fell
into the drainage channel by the
roadside.

According to PUNCH, the truck
marked Lagos EPE712XH, was
heading inward Oyero from Ogba
Ayo when its tyres slipped off the
steep part of the road and veered
into the motorcycle, which was going
towards Ogba Ayo.

The corpses of the dead Pastor and
okada man were taken to Ifo General
Hospital Mortuary, as policemen
from the Agbado division and some
residents of the community were
seen making efforts to clear the road.

Officials of the Federal Road Safety
Corps later joined them in the
operation.

An okada rider and friend of
Nugbohoyon, Israel Oyewo, said he
(the deceased) had wanted to travel
to Benin Republic to meet his wife
who gave birth on Friday.

He said, “It is very painful. His wife
had a baby two days ago and he had
planned to travel later today
(Sunday) before the incident
happened.

The passenger he carried, a pastor,
also died. He was taking the pastor
to a church.”