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TRAGEDY! Health workers union secretary Adamu, wife, daughter perish in road accident
BY KAZIE UKO
Tragedy struck Monday in Kaduna when the Secretary General of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Dr Silas Adamu, his wife and daughter perished in a ghastly road accident on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway.
Adamu, who was also the President of Atyap Community Development Association, Southern Kaduna, as well as the chairman, Sabon Tasha GRA Residents Association, Kaduna, according to a tweet by former senator, Shehu Sani, died alongside his wife and daughter when the vehicle in which they were travelling ran into a truck.
“Comrade Silas Adamu, his wife and daughter died in a road accident along Kaduna-Abuja road yesterday. He ran into a truck. He was the Secretary General of the NMA and the President of the Southern Kaduna based Atyap Community Development Association. A great loss. RIP,” Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate announced on his Twitter handle on Tuesday.
It was not clear who was driving and what time of the day the accident happened. When RELIABLESOURCENG.COM got across to the Kaduna Police Command spokesman, ASP Muhammad Jalige, he promised to get back with details as he did not have information about the accident.
A Twitter user, John Shiklam, who responded to Senator Sani’s tweet, regretted the loss, saying: “He (Dr Adamu) was also the chairman, Sabon Tasha GRA Residents Association, Kaduna & was working hard to ensure that the Kaduna state Govt. extends its Urban Renewal Programme to the area which has no motorable roads since it was founded over 40yrs ago. May their souls rest in peace.”
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The Chairman of the Northern Speakers Forum and Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon Yusuf Zailani, said he received the news of Adamu’s death with rude shock.
Zailani, in a condolence message issued Tuesday by his Chief of Staff, Haruna Jafaru Sambo, described the death as “devastating.”
He said, “We have lost a rare gem who has contributed tremendously to his community and our dear State.
“This is coming just a few days to the final of a football competition that is uniting youths in the Kaduna metropolis, billed for Sunday, March 14, in Sabo GRA, in my honour.
“We will surely miss him greatly, but we are consoled by the fact that his works will live long after him.
“I pray God grants him eternal rest and comforts his loved ones.”
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On their part, residents of Sabo GRA under the aegis of The Tsaunin Kura GRA Residents Association (Sabo GRA) expressed shock over the death of its president, wife, and daughter.
A statement signed by the association’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jacob Onjewu-Dickson on Tuesday, described Adamu as a man of peace.
“We are still shocked over the news of the death of our President General from a ghastly car accident along Kaduna-Abuja Highway on Monday, March 8, 2021.
“It is even more saddening that his wife and daughter also lost their lives from the same accident.
“He was not just a philanthropist, but a man committed to preaching peace to all around him.
“In less than a year of his leadership of our community, he impacted several lives individually and all of us as a community,” the residents mourned.