Kogi Speaker Escapes Death in Fatal Auto Crash

Barely a week after the governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada, escaped with injury from a ghastly auto accident, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Momoh Jimoh Lawal, was also involved in a ghastly auto accident with a police corporal attached to his convoy losing his life.

According to an eye witness, the accident occurred on Monday, December 31, on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja highway, while the speaker was returning from the Christmas Celebration. A heavy duty vehicle was said to have veered from its lane and crashed into the convoy with the speaker narrowly escaping death.

However, a police corporal attached to the convoy, Lamidi Akeem , who was said to be injured in the accident,  later died on Wednesday morning at a private hospital in Lokoja  as a result of injuries sustained.

 One of the legislators, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed the incident but called on all Nigerians to pray for political leaders in  Kogi State saying, “Kogi is passing through a trauma.”