Residents of Akungba Akoko have called Ondo the state government to dualise the major township road to save the people from incessant deaths.
Prominent indigenes of Akungba Akoko appealed to both the Federal and State Governments to intervene in the incessant road accidents in the university community.
“The main road in Akungba needs urgent dual carriage way like Ikare, to accommodate the deluge of traffic in the fast growing settlement,” said the Alale of Akungba, Kabiyesi Oba Isaac Sunday Adeyeye, Ajimo III.
Also, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Otunba Gboyega Adefarati believed that the report from the Safety Committee in Akungba set up by the Governor after the dastardly road mishap of October 31 which claimed dozens of lives, would proffer necessary solutions to the scourge of accidents in the area.
Barely a month after a trailer crashed into the Ibaka market in the town, claiming more than 20 lives, another accident occurred in the community on Friday when a truck loaded with rice crashed into another stationary truck and caught fire resulting in the death of two persons while others were injured.
It was gathered that a truck carrying cement which was descending the hilly part of the university community had brake failure, rammed into a broken down truck conveying gift items and fish.
The incident happened around 4pm on Friday December 11, 2020.
A source disclosed that three people were trapped in the accident. The source said it was another sad day for the community even though the fire narrowly missed a petrol station by the university and other residential buildings.
An eyewitness said valuable items worth millions of Naira were gutted in the conflagration.
When contacted, a competent source within the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Ikare Akoko Unit Command lamented the slow pace on the part of government to implement the Commission’s safety engineering road map recommendations.
“The corridor is well covered in our safety network both from Oka and Ikare axis where we have functional offices. But the hitch lies in the absence of finances for equipment and other logistics.”
A community leader, Chief Saliu Awesu said that the loss of lives at Akungba Akoko in the recent time over motor accident was worrisome.
Awesu charged government to be forthcoming in proffering solutions to the Okeorigbo debacle.
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