Following the road accident which claimed the lives of three secondary school principals and a commercial bus driver, the Oyo state governor Abiola Ajimobi has called off the on-going capacity building workshop organized by the state government for members of the Oyo State School Governing Boards
Governor Ajimobi gave the directive through the Oyo state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor. Adeniyi Olowofela, in a statement released on Sunday in order to honor the deceased of the road accident which occurred along the Oyo/Ogbomoso express on Wednesday.
According to the statement, three staffs of the Oyo state teaching board which include two secondary school principals, an account officer and the driver of a commercial bus conveying them died in the accident, while six others who sustained several degree of injuries are receiving treatment at the Bowen University Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso.
The victims from the report gathered were on their way to Ogbomoso from Oyo town where they attended a workshop organized for members of the SGB by Centre for Organizational and Professional Ethics (COPE), in conjunction with the state ministry of education, science and technology, in Oyo Township.
As a result of the accident the governor has issued a directive for the suspension of the Ibarapa/Kajola and Saki/Irepo Zones workshop earlier scheduled for January 25 and 26, until further notice.
