SAD! See how a pastor died on his way to church last Sunday

It was a gory scene on Sunday, November 29, when a truck crushed a pastor, Ojo Mattew, and a commercial okada rider to death on Oyero Road, Ijoko, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state.


The Punch reports that the pastor was on a motorcycle with the rider, Ayo Nugbohoyon, and was heading for church before the truck carrying cement and asbestos pushed them to the way of an oncoming Toyota Camry car, carrying five members of a family, who were also going to church.

The driver of the car, identified as Samuel, and his family members – wife and three children – were reportedly injured and rushed to a nearby hospital. The car fell into the drainage channel by the roadside. The truck with plate number Lagos EPE712XH, was on its way from Ogba Ayo to Oyero.

The corpses of the dead pastor and okada man were taken to Ifo General Hospital Mortuary, as policemen from the Agbado division and some residents of the community were seen making efforts to clear the road. Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps later joined them in the operation.

An okada rider and friend of Nugbohoyon, Israel Oyewo, said he (the deceased) had wanted to travel to Benin Republic to meet his wife who gave birth on Friday. He said: “It is very painful. His wife had a baby two days ago and he had planned to travel later today (Sunday) before the incident happened. The passenger he carried, a pastor, also died. He was taking the pastor to church.”

Source: Punch

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