The victims were in a bus conveying them and others from a workshop held in Oyo town. About seven others sustained varying degrees of injury in the dusk accident.
“It is with a deep personal sense of loss I received the shocking news of the death of your members – three principals and an accountant – in a ghastly road crash in the course of their duty”, Babalola said in a statement issued in Ibadan on Monday.
Once again: “the Nigerian workers have paid the supreme price, laying down their lives in their effort to contribute to the national wealth”, adding that the gory accident brought to the fore the prevailing hazards which have continued to confront the Nigerian workers and for which government should seek to mitigate.
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The road crash, he said, called attention to the very bad state of the Nigerian roads and the need for government to improve on road safety measures.
While extending his condolences to the bereaved families, he called on the state government to promptly take steps to assuage their pains by compensating the families as they lost their breadwinners in the course of duty to the state.
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