UNIUYO Crisis: NANS Senate President, Four Others Die In Auto Crash

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, (THEWILL) – The crisis
rocking the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) in Akwa
Ibom State has claimed the lives of the Senate
President of the National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS), Donald Onukaogu, and four
others.
The five NANS officials died in an auto crash which
occurred at Ariam in Ikwuano Local Government
Area of Abia State along the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene
highway on Thursday while on their way to Uyo,
the Akwa Ibom State capital, for a meeting with
the officials of the UNIUYO chapter of NANS over
the crisis that led to the closure of the university
and the killing of a student by the police.
The tragedy occurred when the driver of an
articulated truck coming from Akwa Ibom State
lost control of the vehicle and subsequently
collided with the bus in which the students were
traveling.
However, seven others who survived the crash
with various degrees of injuries are said to be
receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre,
Umuahia, the Abia State capital, while the remains
of the deceased had been deposited at the
hospital’s morgue.
Confirming the accident, sources at the Federal
Medical Centre disclosed that 12 persons were
brought to the hospital after an accident with five
confirmed dead and six in critical condition.
Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, who visited
the hospital was also told that the accident victims
were brought in Thursday morning as their vehicle
was said to have collided with a lorry at Ikwuano
on their way to Uyo.