Eight Libya returnees die in car crash

Eight Libya returnees have been reported dead, with seven others injured in an accident along Sagamu expressway.

The accident, that occurred on Ore-Ijebu Ode-Sagamu expressway, Ogun State involved a white Toyota Hiace 18-seater commercialbus marked AYB 479 XA and a blue and white Volvo truck registered as KSF seventy nine XL

It was gathered that the victims were on their way to Lagos to see a preferred pastor to seek financial help, after being informed that the pastor gives out N50,000 each to Libya returnees, who arrived through Lagos.

According to the nation, the bus conveyed fifteen Libya returnees, who left Benin after being profiled by the Edo State Task Force on Anti-human Trafficking and illegal Migration.

Ogun State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Mr. Clement Oladele confirming the incident said the driver of the truck drove against the traffic and had a head-on collision with the bus.

“The injured were taken to General Hospital, Ijebu-Ode and the bodies were deposited at the hospital mortuary,” he said.

Special consultant on Media and Communication Strategy to Governor Godwin Obaseki Mr. Crusoe Osagie expressed unhappiness over the incident.

”It isn't like they were kept in jail as in Libya. they might have embarked on the trip to Lagos on their own. However, the governmentcan build efforts to reach the families of those who died or are injured,” Osagie told the nation.

The identities of the victims are yet to be disclosed, as there was no manifest from the commercial bus.