DANGOTE TRUCK CRASHES INTO AN OGUN APARTMENT
In the Imasayi Yewa North local government area of Ogun state, a Dangote Cement truck, registered DGW109XA, collided with a residence after being fully loaded.
Residents had already gone to bed when the tragedy happened on Friday night.
The house’s occupants, who were sleeping in the parlor, managed to avoid being crushed by a whisker without suffering any fatalities.
The Olu of Imasayi, Oba Lukman Kuoye, when contacted on Saturday, said the incident happened in front of the house where he was living and thanked God that no lives were lost.
He lamented that this incident, among others, was one of the things they faced with Dangote drivers.
The monarch, however, urged the residents to take laws into their own, adding that efforts are underway to investigate the root cause of the accident.
He said “A Fully loaded Dangote Cement Plc truck swerved into a house in Imasayi yesterday night, God saved the people that slept in the sitting room
“The people inside the room escaped untimely death. It happened in front of the house where I was living before moving into my new house
“This is one of the things we are facing with Dangote drivers”, he said.
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