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Tuesday 26 July 2016

Taraba Speaker’s Driver Dead, 2 Other Missing In Boat Mishap



A senior driver of Taraba State House of Assembly's Speaker, Peter Diah, is one of the three persons pronounced missing as a neighborhood vessel, conveying nine travelers and three cruisers, apparently overturned at Ngira town crosswise over River Donga in Sadauna Local Government Area of the state. 

The mishap, which happened at a universal course connecting Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon, killed one of the travelers. The driver was said to be headed from Gyembu, where he had gone to a wedding of the child of the Special Adviser to the Governor of Taraba State on Political Matters, Abubakar Bawa, to the Speaker's town, Vakunde, in the same Sadauna Local Government.

The Speaker, Peter Diah, who addressed Vanguard through his Personal Assistant, Muhammed Harris, faulted the mishap for over-burdening of the nearby vessel and absence of open streets inside the zone. He facilitate uncovered that the quick past executive of Sadauna Local Government Area, Dawood Joduwa, and a previous Councilor from the nearby government region, were among the five that survived the mishap.

Vanguard gathered that the mishap happened in the early hours of Saturday and most travelers in the pontoon were headed to pay tribute to the Speaker, who was in the town for the weekend. Diah likewise disclosed that endeavors were still on to locate the missing persons. He begged government at all levels to build streets inside the territory to facilitate the sufferings of local people and lessen such accident.

Credit: Vanguard

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