No fewer than seventeen persons who attended the sitting of the Delta State Judiciary panel of inquiry probing the crisis in Uzere, Isoko south Local Government,on Friday cheated death as the vehicle they were returning home with had an accident.
The accident left one person, immediately identified as Emu Idiyo died and many others injured.
The 18-seater bus marked XE 8s7 MkD (Benue state) conveying the indigenes who attended the sitting of the panel on Thursday, in Warri was said to have rammed into a ditch after the driver swerved in a bid to avoid a head-on collision with oncoming lorry.
The victims were rushed to nearby Oleh Central Hospital and Oweh Memorial Clinic,Oleh.
The panel is sitting in Government House Annex, Warri, a far distance from Uzere where the crisis broke out last year after peaceful protest by youths against Anglo Dutch oil major, Shell turned bloody.
The villagers have being traveling all the way from Uzere to and fro Warri, since last week Thursday, when the panel headed by Justice Sylvester Ehiwario commenced sitting.
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan who inaugurated the commission to investigate immediate and remote cause of the crisis put the venue in Warri.
But the President-General of the kingdom, Chief Emeakpor Owhe, had earlier pleaded that the venue of the sitting should be relocated for logistics and security reasons.
He said, “Though we commend the government for setting up the panel, we are asking that the sitting should be relocated to Isoko because of security reasons and because it is difficult to transport our people to this place every time the panel sits’’
It was learnt that the embattled monarch of the community,HRM Isaac Udogri whose palace was burnt by irate youths in spontaneous reaction to killing of three youths by security agents had cited security reasons as why he had not attended the sitting of the panel in Warri.
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