ABIA: Protest Rocks Street After One Dies In Fatal Accident

By Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed

Some youths from Ihieorji and Umuocha communities in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State have marched up to the streets to protest the killing of one villager by a reckless driver whose no one knows his true identity still.

Our Correspondent, Mr. Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed, says those who died were: Mr. Chibueze Ugorji, the Youth President of Umuocha village, Obi Mgboko Amaise autonomous community and his, one Mr. Chibuike Nwaobilor Ogidi; Ugorji’s apprentice.

Track News Nigeria gathered that the accident was said to have occurred within the Mgboko community.

A source told us they were returning from where they had gone to mount canopies for an event in a commercial tricycle when they met their untimely death.

The tricycle they boarded was said to have had head-on collision with a speeding car at a sharp bend of the Obikabia-Umuene road in Obingwa LGA.

Track News Nigeria learnt that Ugorji died instantly while Ogidi died on the way to the hospital, making the youths conveying him to turn their tricycle to head back to the scene of the accident.