Nigerian students threaten Dangote as truck crushes AAUA students to death in Ondo

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has come hard on Aliko Dangote, owner of Dangote Company, after his truck crushed some student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko to death during the weekend.

It would be recall that a Dangote truck fully loaded with cement lost control and rammed into a shop in the town, crushing about ten persons, including some students of AAUA to death on the spot.

Reacting to the incessant accidents and deaths caused by Dangote trucks across the country, NANS National President, Com Sunday Asefon, called the government to really work hard and improve the conditions of our roads through massive renovation and reconstruction of some of these highly deplorable roads.

Asefon also declared three days of mourning on the death of the students in a statement in Sunday.

“It is sad and gloomy to see students who resumed back to schools two weeks ago after a long stay at home to get gruesomely killed by a reckless truck driver.

“Apart from the fact that some of the truck drivers are drug abusers and cared less about the safety of lives, our roads had also become death traps to commuters and passers-by. Putting it succinctly, no one is safe on our roads.

“I appeal to our governments to really work hard and improve the conditions of our roads through massive renovation and reconstruction of some of these highly deplorable roads.

“To complement this, the Federal Road Safety Corps must also increase patrol on roads and ensure that drug abusers and reckless individuals among the drivers are made to face the full weight of the law.

“We sympathise with the families of these students at this time of grief and pray that the good Lord shall console them in his infinite mercy”.