President Bola Tinubu has commiserated with the government of Plateau and Kaduna States over the death of 40 members and leaders of the Tijjaniyya movement in an auto crash on Sunday.
The victims were on their way from Kwandari in Plateau State to a Maulud Nabiy celebratory event in Saminaka, Kaduna State, when their bus collided with a truck at Lere town of Kaduna State.
Expressing his sadness over the gruesome accident, the President, in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, on Tuesday, condoled with the families of the dead and injured.
”President Bola Tinubu has condoled with members and leaders of the Tijjaniyya Movement in Nigeria over the death of 40 members killed in an auto crash on Sunday.
”Scores of others were injured,” the statement reads.
”The victims were on their way from Kwandari in Plateau State to a Maulud Nabiy celebratory event in Saminaka, Kaduna State, when their bus collided with a truck at Lere town of Kaduna State.
”President Tinubu condoled with the families of the dead, injured and with the governments of Kaduna and Plateau states,” the statement added.
Tinubu, who ”prayed for the repose of the souls of the departed,” directed ”the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) to improve highway monitoring and reduce the number of road accidents nationwide.”
