It was accumulated that the deplorable episode happened along Airport Road, Uyo as the driver of the staff 18-seater Bus lost control and the transport somersaulted at a U-turn.
As per observers, the driver and numerous other people who continued wounds were quickly hurried to the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, UUTH, General Hospital, Ituk Mbang, in Uruan LG, and Ibom Specialist Hospital relying upon the degrees of the wounds.
Talking with Vanguard Thursday morning the State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State Council, Mr. Amos Etuk depicted the episode as dismal and lamentable. Etuk guaranteed that the initiative of the Union would visit the emergency clinics to find out how the survivors are reacting to treatment.
He stated, "No columnist kicked the bucket in the mishap. The four who lost their lives were regulatory staff. It was a lamentable episode. I and different pioneers of the State Council were in the area of the episode the previous evening. Likewise, the Commissioner for Information, Secretary to State Government, SSG, were additionally at the scene.
"We were there till 10pm to guarantee that every one of the bodies was cleared and survivors raced to the medical clinics. The driver was raced to Ibom Specialist Hospital. We are going to visit the medical clinic today (Thursday) to perceive how the survivors are faring"
A survivor and a correspondent who didn't continue genuine damage, Mrs. Bassey Nkponam while portraying her experience, said she couldn't express gratitude toward God enough for sparing her life.
Nkponam who was still in stun over those that lost their lives figured out how to state that supported little wounds on her legs while bouncing out from the window of the transport.
"Indeed the facts demonstrate that four individuals kicked the bucket on the spot and as I address you I don't have a clue about the state of those that supported genuine wounds.
I hopped out through the transport window and that was the means by which I got damage on my legs from broken glasses" she basically said.
In the interim in an announcement gave by the press week advisory group of the State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists Wednesday night and got by Vanguard yesterday shows the delay of Thursday exercises till next Monday.
It peruses, "In perspective on the shocking occurrence that happened tonight including a few individuals from staff of Pioneer Newspapers, the authority of the NUJ has exhorted that the oddity coordinate that was booked to happen tomorrow Thursday, twelfth December at the NUJ Press Center be deferred.
"In like manner, the match will currently happen on Monday, sixteenth December 2019"
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