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Dangote truck rams into apartment in Ogun


A fully-loaded Dangote Cement truck with registration number DGW109XA rammed into a house in Imasayi Yewa North local government area of Ogun state.

The incident occurred on Friday night when residents had already gone to bed.

DAILY POST reports that no life was lost as the
occupants of the house, who were asleep in the parlour, escaped being crushed by a whisker.

The Olu of Imasayi, Oba Lukman Kuoye, when contacted on Saturday, said the incident happened in front of the house where he was living and thanked God that no lives were lost.

He lamented that this incident, among others, was one of the things they faced with Dangote drivers.

The monarch, however, urged the residents to take laws into their own, adding that efforts are underway to investigate the root cause of the accident.

He said “A Fully loaded Dangote Cement Plc truck swerved into a house in Imasayi yesterday night, God saved the people that slept in the sitting room

“The people inside the room escaped untimely death. It happened in front of the house where I was living before moving into my new house

“This is one of the things we are facing with Dangote drivers”, he said.

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