By Rotimi Owomoyela

Ado-Ekiti—Three medical doctors from Ekiti State and their driver, who died on Sunday along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on their way to the Annual Delegates Meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Sokoto, were buried.

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They were buried after a commendation and funeral service was held in their honour at the NMA Secretariat, along Ado-Iyin Road, yesterday.

The funeral service was attended by Governor Ayo Fayose represented by his deputy, Dr, Kolapo Olusola; House of Assembly Speaker, Kola Oluwawole; Head of Service, Dr. Gbenga Faseluka; Chief of Staff, Dipo Anisulowo; other senior government officials and top NMA officials.

Those who were buried were the late Dr. Atolani Adeniyi, Senior Health Officer with the Hospitals Management Board; the late Dr J.B. Ogunseye, who served as Senior Dental Officer at General Hospital, Ifaki, the late Dr. Olayiwola Olajide, who until his death was President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) branch and the driver of the NMA bus, Mr. Olowookere Ajibola.

Ogunseye and Olajide were buried at the premises of the Doctors’ House while the remains of Adeniyi and Olowookere were conveyed to their communities for interment.

The remains of two other victims, the late Dr. Alexander Akinyele, who was a Resident Doctor, Community Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti (FETHI) and the late Dr. O.J. Taiwo, a consultant Anatomic Pathologist at EKSUTH will be buried on Monday and Tuesday respectively.

Taiwo’s burial was put on hold because his mother died barely 24 hours before he died on his way to Sokoto.

Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, the Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, offered prayers for the families left behind by the deceased.

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Governor Fayose has given approval for automatic employment of the wives of Akinyele and Olajide, who were not in government service before the demise of their husbands.

Fayose, who spoke through Olusola urged the family of the dead persons to take heart during the period of grief pledging the support of the state government to them.

He said: “When God says it is time, it is time. When your own day comes what will people say about you and when my own time comes what will the people say about me?.

We all have our own today and  tomorrow  but the greatest  tomorrow  is the one that will meet us at the feet of Christ. Let us learn from our departed brothers, they died in active service, they were hard working and diligent.”