One month after a Sienna bus with
10 occupants plunged into Ososa River along Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode axis of the
Lagos-Benin Highway in Ogun State, victims are yet to be recovered.
The
commercial bus plunged into the river, barely four days after a staffer of Tai
Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Tajudeen Oropo, plunged into same river.
Oropo was said to have been found
dead after three days of joint rescue operations involving the Federal Road
Safety Corps (FRSC), the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE)
Corps, the police and others.
However, the rescue agencies have
not succeeded in recovering, at least one, out of the ten bodies that plunged
into the river on October 2, even with the services of both local and
professional divers.
Six days after the incident,
Clement Oladele, the Ogun Sector Commander of FRSC, told newsmen that the
continuous rainfall around Sagamu and Ijebu Ode had made the recovery of the
corpses and bus difficult for the FRSC divers.
Oladele said the level of water
in the river had continued to rise above the normal level when there was no
rain, adding that this hindered the rescue operation.
“We will continue to search for
them to ensure that their corpses were recovered from the river,” he said.
Meanwhile, it was gathered on Friday that the Sienna bus and the passengers are still in the
water.
Speaking with our correspondent,
TRACE Corps spokesperson, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed that neither the
victims nor the bus had been recovered from the river.
Akinbiyi said there was no any
new development other than the fact that operations are still ongoing to locate
the missing bodies.
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