"How bus conveying Kano athletes, officials crashed": Survivor narrates tragic experience

• A survivor, Dorothy Okwuzuluike, has recounted the horrifying acquisition of the ghastly roadworthy mishap that killed 22 Kano athletes
• Okwuzuluike said the coastal autobus was not dependable for travelling and was ever breaking down on the way
• According to Okwuzuluike, each she tin retrieve was that the operator mislaid power aft the autobus brake failed

Legit.ng writer Adekunle Dada has implicit 8 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary issues

Kano state - A survivor, Dorothy Okwuzuluike, has recounted a coaster autobus conveying the Kano State athletes crashed and killed occupants returning from the precocious concluded Gateway Games 2024 successful Abeokuta, Ogun state.

Legit.ng recalls that 22 athletes and officials who represented Kano authorities astatine the conscionable concluded National Sports Festival successful Ogun authorities died successful a ghastly accident.

Survivor says the autobus that conveyed Kano athletes was not sound. Photo credit: @OurFavOnlineDoc
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According to an official, Ado Salisu, the Kano State Sports Council spokesperson, Galadima Ibrahim, besides died successful the incident.

Salifu further disclosed that respective persons sustained terrible injuries and are receiving attraction astatine the Kura General Hospital.

Okwuzuluike said it appeared the autobus had brake nonaccomplishment and the operator mislaid power of the vehicle.

As reported by Vanguard, she stated this from a infirmary furniture successful a video that has gone viral.

Okwuzuluike had a bandaged limb that appeared swollen.

“All I tin retrieve is similar the operator mislaid power aft the autobus brake failed.“The lone happening I tin retrieve was that I held onto the spot successful beforehand of maine firmly. The adjacent happening was that I recovered myself astatine the hospital.”

The subsister further stated that:

“We spent 2 days connected the roadworthy to spell to Abeokuta to correspond Kano authorities astatine the Festival.“On our mode back, we arsenic spent different 2 days connected the roadworthy earlier the mishap occurred.“The conveyance was not sound, arsenic it was ever breaking down on the way. It would interruption down, we would stop, and they would effect repair.“After different fewer kilometres, it would interruption down again. They would transportation retired repairs, and we would determination again. It was a horrifying experience.”

Kano athletes' death: Shehu Sani speaks connected accident

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Shehu Sani, a erstwhile legislator from Kaduna, commented connected the tragic roadworthy accident involving the Kano authorities contingent astatine the recently-concluded National Sports Festival.

The unfortunate incidental occurred successful Kano, claiming the lives of implicit 20 promising Nigerian athletes, officials, and enactment unit who were returning from representing their state.

Sani, successful an affectional post, said the Abba Yusuf-led medication successful Kano arsenic good arsenic the national authorities "must bash amended to enactment their families and immortalise" the deceased sportspersons.

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