Jubilation as 9-year-old girl walks again 12 months after fatal accident

- Exactly a year after her involvement in an accident which affected her mobility and claimed her mother's life, nine-year-old Islamiya now walks again

- The The Ogun state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps made the disclosure on Tuesday, January 1

- Apart from the girl's mother, four other people were killed in the accident, while 13 others sustained various degrees of injury

The Ogun state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has said a nine-year-old girl, Ajadi Islamiya, incapacitated in a fatal accident in 2017, now walks again, a year after the incident.

Islamiya, whose mother died in the crash on Lagos-Ibadan expressway on December 31, 2017, walked exactly a year on the crash anniversary .

Clement Oladele, the Ogun sector commander of FRSC, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, Ogun state, on Tuesday, January 1.

Legit.ng recalls that a commercial bus with 18 passengers had on December 31, 2017, while heading to Lagos from Ekiti state, rammed into a stationary truck due to speeding along Ogere axis on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Five people were killed including the mother of the girl, while 13 others sustained various degrees of injury.

According to him, Islamiya sustained multiple fractures from the auto crash and was taken to Victory Hospital, Ogere, Ogun, for an intensive treatment by the Ogere FRSC teams led by Maxwell Lede.

The sector commander commended the chief medical director of the hospital, Victor Emmanuel, for treating the girl without being sure of recovering his money for the past one year.

He said: "I want to thank and give glory to God because she can now walk on her own without any artificial support.

“Only God who preserves her from the valley of the shadow of death on the Dec. 31, 2017 is worthy to be praised."

Maxwell Lede, who is the Ogere unit commander of FRSC, said that he was excited to see that the command’s efforts in the timely rescue of the accident victims were not in vain.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun state command, said it returned over 65,000 euros recovered from an accident scene to the victims.

Clement Oladele, the sector commander, disclosed this in a statement by the command’s public education officer, Florence Okpe, in Abeokuta on Friday, June 15.

Eight persons died in an accident involving a bus and a truck on Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday, June 12.

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The passengers in the bus came in from Spain and had chartered the bus to take them to Benin City.

Oladele explained that it was observed that some of the passengers were traveling with cash, including foreign currencies

He stated that the FRSC rescue team also recovered 80 pounds, 238 euro cents, N84,800, 32 traveling bags comprising 16 large traveling bags, seven extra large traveling bags and nine large “Ghana must Go” bags.

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