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ROAD ACCIDENT KILLS JOUNALIST, WIFE DAUGHTER AND THER UNBORN BABY

For journalists, especially those of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Akure, February 1, 2014 will, for a long time to come, remain a sad day. That was the day a young promising reporter, Alex Akinwale, 35, his wife, Kehinde Rebecca, daughter, Pauline, 2, and maid were killed in an auto crash. Akinwale was not only a reporter of note. He was also the chairman of the NTA Akure Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and a minister at the Ondo Province 1 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. His wife equally worked at the Marketing Department of the television station.

Their marriage was only five years old and blessed with two children. One of the children-a son, Paul, 5-was the sole survivor in their vehicle after the crash. At the time of crash, the deceased couple were reportedly expecting their third child as the wife was said to be six months pregnant. For the deceased four, death came following a multiple crash said to have been caused by reckless driving by the driver of a traditional ruler, the Osunmakinde of Ife Tuntun, Osun State, Oba Obawure Taofeek Olaposi.

The crash involved the convoy of Ondo State
Deputy Governor Alhaji Ali Olanusi penultimate Saturday. The previous day, Friday, the four members of the family and their maid, Bose, took off from their Oda Road, Akure residence for the burial ceremony of the cousin of Mr Akinwale in Ondo town in the family blue Toyota Sienna multi-purpose vehicle (MPV).

On their way back A white Toyota Camry car belonging to Oba   Olaposi allegedly ran into the Deputy Governor’s convoy among other vehicles while trying to   overtake some vehicles including the Akinwales.
It was gathered that the traditional ruler’s car rammed into the family’s car before hitting the Deputy Governor’s convoy.
The monarch and a teenage occupant in the vehicle were receiving treatment at the Trauma and Accident Centre in Ondo town following the injuries they sustained. Olanusi’s car escaped the crash but the security vehicle in his convoy was said to have been severely damaged
Akinwale family’s MPV was wrecked and sympathisers had a tough time removing the family members from it.
Alex and daughter made it to hospital but eventually gave up the ghost while the wife and maid reportedly died instantly at the spot of crash.
The corpses of the deceased deposited at the mortuary of the Ondo town Trauma and Accident Centre were buried on Thursday.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Ondo Deputy Governor, Mr Daisi Ajayi ,who described the incident as not only painful but unfortunate, noted that his principal was on his way to Ondo for an   official assignment when the incident occurred.
Ajayi said one of the security cars in the Deputy Governor’s convoy was   badly damaged as a result of the incident.

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