Driver kills two sisters, injures mother in Ogun

Taiwo Jimoh

Two sisters were among those killed at Maba Junction, Asese along Lagos Ibadan Expressed Way on Saturday.

The driver, who disappeared after the accident, said alleged to have been speeding and coming from Lagos direction. He lost control of his car and rammed into people standing at bus stop, waiting to board buses going to Mowe.

The driver killed the two sisters and a meat seller and then injured the mother of the girls. The mother of the girl had a broken leg. The two sisters have been identified as Uche and Ijeoma.

The incident occurred at about 7a.m. at Maba Junction, just as the two girls and their mother were returning from a Celestial Church of Christ Church at Asese village, where they went for a vigil.

The meat seller, however, was identified as Ibrahim. An eyewitness, Mr. Adebiyi Idowu, said: “I was at the bus stop, waiting for a bus that would convey me to Mowe when the incident occurred. I saw the woman and her two daughters as they crossed from the other side of the road, to where I was standing. We greeted each other. Before I knew what was happening, a Passat car, coming at a top speed, skipped from the road and ran into people standing by the roadside. The girls and a man were killed, while their mother had a broken leg.

"It was still like a dream to me; if not for God, I would have been killed too. I have not witnessed such an accident before. When I and other people rushed to the scene, the driver of the car had disappeared from the scene.”

The corpses were removed by policemen from Ibafo Police Station and deposited at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Mortuary, Sagamu.

Another eyewitness said: “The car, which killed the victims, was burnt by any youths in the area.”

When our correspondent visited the two sister’s house at Rainbow Street, Maba, the place was deserted.

A residents of Rainbow Street, who gave his name simply as Mr. Shonibare said: “The girls’ parents had been living in Maba village before some of us. When you hear them speak Yoruba, you would think they are Yoruba. For long, I didn’t know they were Ibo. They are the first Ibo people I have seen attending Celestial Church of Christ.”

When the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Abimbola Oyeyemi, was called to confirm the story, he promised to get back to our correspondent. But as at filing this story, he was yet to do.