Friday is usually a special day numerous Muslim families look ahead to, but to the members of the Bello family of Bayeku area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, Friday, April 6, 2013 will stay new in their recollections for some time to arrive That was the day four members of the family and a neighbour past away prematurely in an auto smash into. A five months old baby of the family escaped the incident unhurt. Prior to that day, the family had designed triple celebrations: their daughter’s graduation , car dedication of their child and the head of the family’s journey overseas alongside the female head of the family.
All the plans came to nought as a outcome of the tragedy. The head of the family, popularlly called Alhaji Bello, was a prominent memmber in Bayeku following his sponsorship of numerous Muslim programmes including the latest turbanning of the first Imam of the community which took place the Sunday preceding his rapid death. As part of the arrangements for the trip abroad, Alhaji Bello had placed a change of title notice in Vanguard which was released on the day of crash.
The family had not even acquired a copy of the paper before the misfortune appeared around 12noon at Agbowa-Ikosi area of Lagos State. Five individuals including the five month old baby were in one of the vehicles the family members were travellinging in while two other ones were in another as they were going for the graduation ceremony of their female child at a tertiary informative institution in Ogun State. All the five individuals in one vehicle with the exclusion of the baby:
Alhaji Bello, his daughter- in- law and her parents, together with a neighbour, past away while the matriach and her child in the other vehicle endured. An eye observer, Madam Kehinde Olufade, said the family had had a glossy journey until they advanced a crater at Ikosi where motorists had to slow down.
But due to the dilapidated nature of Agbowa street, a trailer left its own side of the street and faced the vehicle Alhaji Bello was driving, compelling him to manouver before a tipper rammed into him from behind.
The vehicle landed in a ditch. ‘’As soon as the vehicle set down in the ditch, the tipper furthermore lost control and dropped on top of the vehicle murdering the four members of the family and their neighbour on the spot.The Bellos daughter-in-law, who was carrying her five months old baby at the time of occurrence, past away while the baby miraculously survived”,the eye observer narrated When the report of their demise filtered into their community, with anxious inhabitants.
The community development association (CDA) wanted the victims buried before sunset in accordance with Muslim custom, but some indigenes countered them, saying some rituals must be performeded before the arrival of the corpses in the community as the death of the family constituents portended a awful omen.
All the plans came to nought as a outcome of the tragedy. The head of the family, popularlly called Alhaji Bello, was a prominent memmber in Bayeku following his sponsorship of numerous Muslim programmes including the latest turbanning of the first Imam of the community which took place the Sunday preceding his rapid death. As part of the arrangements for the trip abroad, Alhaji Bello had placed a change of title notice in Vanguard which was released on the day of crash.
The family had not even acquired a copy of the paper before the misfortune appeared around 12noon at Agbowa-Ikosi area of Lagos State. Five individuals including the five month old baby were in one of the vehicles the family members were travellinging in while two other ones were in another as they were going for the graduation ceremony of their female child at a tertiary informative institution in Ogun State. All the five individuals in one vehicle with the exclusion of the baby:
Alhaji Bello, his daughter- in- law and her parents, together with a neighbour, past away while the matriach and her child in the other vehicle endured. An eye observer, Madam Kehinde Olufade, said the family had had a glossy journey until they advanced a crater at Ikosi where motorists had to slow down.
But due to the dilapidated nature of Agbowa street, a trailer left its own side of the street and faced the vehicle Alhaji Bello was driving, compelling him to manouver before a tipper rammed into him from behind.
The vehicle landed in a ditch. ‘’As soon as the vehicle set down in the ditch, the tipper furthermore lost control and dropped on top of the vehicle murdering the four members of the family and their neighbour on the spot.The Bellos daughter-in-law, who was carrying her five months old baby at the time of occurrence, past away while the baby miraculously survived”,the eye observer narrated When the report of their demise filtered into their community, with anxious inhabitants.
The community development association (CDA) wanted the victims buried before sunset in accordance with Muslim custom, but some indigenes countered them, saying some rituals must be performeded before the arrival of the corpses in the community as the death of the family constituents portended a awful omen.
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