TRAGIC: Deputy Vice Chancellor, his 14 year old son and four others die in car crash along Lagos-Ibadan expressway (PHOTO)
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor-designate of Fountain University,
Osogbo, Prof. Abdul Hakeem Mobolaji, his 14 year old son, Muhammad and
four others died in a car crash along the Lagos Ibadan expressway on
Sunday September 20th.
According to The Nation, the professor of
Econometrics was traveling with his two sons, the late Muhammad and
Abdul-Hafiz as well as one of his friend, Mr Abdul-Rasheed Attah, a
lawyer, when a commercial bus rammed into his SUV after overtaking
another vehicle on the narrow road.
The road had been partitioned by the
contractor working on it. Professor Mobolaji and his son died on the
spot. His friend Attah and the late Mobolaji’s second son, AbdulHafiz
were injured. Attah immediately called a relative and gave his phone to a
woman to inform the person of the accident. Shortly after, he and Abdul
Hafiz went into a coma. Four people including the driver of the
passenger bus died in the accident.
Speaking on the sad
incident, the deceased professor's son, Abdul Azeez said "Who will take
care of us now that he is late? I was expecting to link up
with him at Fountain University today (Monday). I was calling his phone
on Sunday when I didn’t hear from him whether he has reached Ibadan
where he was expected to pick other family members but he wasn’t picking
his calls. I called him severally up to 30 times but no one was picking
the call. I called the MD of Al Barakah Microfinance Bank to tell him
that I have been calling my father but he was not picking his call that
he should help me call him but later he came back with some people to
announce his death that Allah has taken him back. I pray to Almighty
Allah to grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss because he was
the bread winner of the family and no one else.”. The late professor and his 14 year old son were on Monday buried in Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State.
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