Convoy of Delta state governor, Okowa crushes elderly man!

The convoy of Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has reportedly killed an elderly man in Umutu community in Ukwuani local government area of the south-south state. According to reports from Sahara Reporters, the unfortunate incident occurred late in the afternoon of Friday, August 19 just as the governor was returning from a meeting of the Niger Delta Coastal States that was organised Okowa and former information minister, Edwin Clark.


It reports that journalists who were in the convoy of the governor sustained severe injuries just like the driver of the vehicle, whose name was given as Isaac. The government house press crew bus in the governor’s convoy which was carrying journalists and cameramen was said to have rammed at high speed into the elderly man who was driving a pickup vehicle. 

He was promptly rushed to Abraka Hospital and then referred back to a hospital in Asaba, where he died following shortage of blood and severe injuries. The situation nearly degenerated at the spot of the accident until the governor had to come down and personally plead with angry youths not burn cars in his convoy. “The bus that killed the man was driven by one of our drivers called Isaac. Several journalists and cameramen would have been dead by now but God saved them. So many of them were seriously injured and taken for treatment in government house clinic.

 “Youths in the community almost unleashed terror on the convoy but the presence of the governor and other top government officials salvaged the situation which could have turned bloody. Governor Okowa had to personally come down from his car to appease the people. The driver as I talk to you now is still being detained in Asaba by the police,” Sahara Reporters quoted a source as saying. Governor Okowa is said to be planning to send a government delegation to the family of the deceased to open a discussion on how to settle the matter.