Director General, Media and Communications to the Governor of Kanu State, Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye in a statement yesterday released names of the students that lost their lives in a fatal motor accident on Tuesday morning.
Many would recall that about eight students from Kano state died on Tuesday morning in an accident that occurred on the Ibadan-Lagos expressway caused by burst tyre.
Dantiye said, “Seven students from Kano lost their lives on Tuesday morning, along Ibadan–Lagos expressway in a road accident, believed to have been caused by burst tyre.
“The students, Ahmed Faisal, Kamal Muhammad and Abubakar Abdullahi, are from Kano Capital School while Umar Musa, Sani Musa, Ibrahim Sani and Yusuf Danladi came from Unity College, Karaye, in the state.
“Others who lost their lives in the accident are Aminu Abdullahi, the driver of their ill-fated bus and Okafor, a staff of FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc. Three other students, however, sustained various degrees of injury.”
The contingent was returning in a bus, belonging to a public secondary school in Kano, from a National schools quiz competition organized by FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc in Lagos.
While addressing parents of the victims at the Government House, Kano on Wednesday, the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje described the incident as shocking, saying it has affected the entire state.
He said, “On getting information about the accident, I immediately called the governor of Oyo state who got personally involved and even visited the hospital to see the injured. We have also arranged for the injured and the deceased to be transported to Kano this evening by air.”
Describing the late students as heroes who were on a mission to do the state proud, Governor Gandjue urged their parents to take solace in the fact that all mortals will inevitably die.
He prayed Almighty Allah to grant the deceased eternal rest and to stand by the bereaved as they mourn the loss of their beloved children who died in their formative years.
The governor, thereafter, led a delegation of politicians, top civil servants, parents and other family members to receive corpses of the victims who were brought to the state capital on board AZMAN Air, at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, to hasten their burial according to Islamic rites.
They will be buried today (Thursday) at the Tarauni graveyard after the funeral prayer at the Emir of Kano’s palace.
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