Three principals and an accountant in the public schools in Oyo State lost their lives in a fatal road accident, hence throwing members of the National Union of Teachers in the state into mourning.
No fewer than seven persons, who suffered varying degrees of injury, have also been hospitalised.
PUNCH gathered that the victims were involved in the accident along the Oyo-Ogbomosho road around 5pm on Wednesday, January 24.
They were said to have attended a seminar organised by the state government in Oyo town and were returning to their respective destinations in Ogbomoso when a tanker rammed into a bus they were in.
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It was learnt that the tanker driver veered onto the bus lane in an attempt to dodge a pothole but crashed into the bus.
The three principals, an account clerk, and the bus driver, whose identities had yet to be ascertained, died on the spot, while seven others who were injured, were rushed to the Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso.
“Five persons, including three principals, an account clerk in one of the public secondary schools and the bus driver, died in the accident.
“I learnt that one of the deceased principals, Mr. Ogunremi, was supposed to retire in a few weeks’ time. They were returning from a workshop in Oyo town,” a source said.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Waheed Olojede, who is also the secretary of the state chapter of the National Union of Teachers, confirmed the fatalities, adding that five others were critically injured.
He blamed the Oyo State Ministry of Education for directing 340 participants from schools in Ogbomoso to travel to Oyo town for the workshop, saying a centre should have been created in Ogbomoso considering the large number.
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