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Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has sympathise with the parents of Rahab Hassan a students of Government Girls Science Secondary School Kumo who died recently as result of a car accident.
Rahab Hassan along with her colleagues had besieged the Gombe Yola road to welcome Governor Inuwa Yahaya visit to Kumo when a commercial bus driver knocked her down.
Governor Inuwa Yahaya had while commiserating with the bereaved family in Jalingo Baule of Kaltungo Local Government Area of the State said he received the sudden and unfortunate death of Rahab Hassan with great shock and sadness.
Represented by the Secretary to the Gombe State Government Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, the Governor describe the death of Rahab as a big loss not only to her immediate family but the State at large.
“As a father losing a child at such a tender age is so devastating moreso that the child in question is doing exceptionally well to uplift the name of her family through educational pursuit”.
The Governor therefore call on the parents of the deceased to comforted and take solace in the fact that death is an inevitable end on all mortals.
He equally use the occasion to correct the notion making the rounds that it was a vehicle in the Governor’s convoy that knocked down Rahab describing the narrative as baseless and unfounded.
He explains that as a responsible Government, his administration will continue to stand with the people of the State in both bad and good times.
The member representing Kaltungo East in the Gombe State House of Assembly in whose the deceased fall under his sphere of influence Hon. Ladan Yerima Gaule said the administration of Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya is committed towards the overall good and welfare of his people.
This was why he said the Governor deemed it necessary to send a high powered delegation to commiserate with the parents of the deceased and the entire Jalingo Baule community.
The Commissioner of Education Dauda Batari Zambuk said the the State Government through his Ministry and Government Girls Science Secondary School Kumo did all they could to save the life of Rahab Hassan.
“As soon as she was knocked we rushed her to the hospital in Kumo and after some first aid treatment we were refer to the Federal Teaching hospital Gombe, it was at the Federal Hospital that succumb to the impact of the accident”.
He said the Ministry of Education and by extension the Gombe State Government is deeply saddened by the sudden death of Rahab Hassan and therefore prayed God to grant her soul eternal rest.
Responding on behalf of the bereaved family Ahmadu Lasuni thanked Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya for sharing in the pain of the immediate family of the late Rahab Hassan and the entire Jalingo Baule community.
The Governor’s delegation had earlier visited Government Girls Science Secondary School Kumo to commiserate with the Principal Teachers and Students of the School.
The Principal Saratu T. Joda said the death of Rahab Hassan as one too many.
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