Son and daughter of the late minister mourning their father
Speaking yesterday when he paid a condolence visit, Minister of
Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Monday, has disclosed that the Federal
Government will investigate how the driver of the Sport Utility Vehicle,
in which the Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi (SAN); his
wife, Blessing; and son, Joshua, died along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway
on Sunday, was employed.
The minister stated this while responding to the call by the
relatives of the deceased, including Ocholi’s uncle, Abdallah Aliu;
another relative, Paul Audu; and the immediate younger sister to the
late Blessing, who did not want her name mentioned, that the driver be
investigated.
"The acting Permanent Secretary is here, she is the one in
charge of human resources. We will find out and investigate it. We will
do, but I can tell you that our personal drivers are known to us and we
both keep our personal drivers. We will find out and investigate this," Ngige said.
The Ocholi family who is working on some theories concerning the
accident, believed that the driver of a car that somersaulted several
times would ordinarily be unconscious and would not take photographs of
the deceased and upload them on social media.
They also contended that the driver and the orderly should have
cordoned off the place and evacuated the corpses as this had been the
tradition whenever a VIP was involved in an accident.
According to Aliu, "Distinguished Senator Ngige, I know you
very well. When James Ocholi was told to work with you, I knew he was in
good hands because the last time I saw you was in Anambra State. We ate
with you in your house as a governor.
"This man that just died is not a lone person. We leave this
responsibility in your care. Whoever recruited the driver and posted
(redeploy) him should be investigated. It can happen to anybody, it can
happen to any minister. It can happen because it has happened.
"So, we want to know who recruited the driver, and at what
speed (he was during the trip) to the extent that the corpse of the
deceased cannot even be recognised. Can you imagine that? I am worried,
it is worrisome."
He also shed light on his allegations later during a telephone interview with The Punch.
"There was a kind of foul play in the whole exercise, which is
very worrisome. Apparently, the driver who drove the car was the same
person who took the photo of the dead man and sent it all over the
Internet – whatsApp and others. So, the question is: how come that the
driver of the vehicle in the same car was able to take the picture of
the dead man?
"The side of the door, where the Honourable Minister sat, was
not properly locked because after the car somersaulted, the thing flung
him and so he had a terrible and fatal damage that his body was beyond
recognition. There was a foul play in Ocholi’s death.
"While I was in his house, I already knew because those who
conspired and plotted it (the death) became jittery because I have never
been to that house and they don’t know me. But somehow, they became
jittery, scared and worried.
"This thing they did is political, it is a political war and
some people want to score some political points against the system
somehow. The death of Ocholi is quite suspicious.
"So, I had to hurriedly leave because God has made me to know
what happened and we know that they will get the people who are
responsible. When you are innocent, God will always uncover how certain
things happened. Ocholi’s death is a great loss to the common people of
Nigeria. And the spirit of the common people of Nigeria is fighting
back.
"The perpetrators want to derail the focus of this
administration. They are looking for every way to put a wedge in the
wheel of success. I can specifically pinpoint those who plotted these
things. What they are trying to do now is to knock heads together and
the earlier we get rid of them out of that place, the better.
The late minister's residence
"As we were there, they were trying to get the contacts of the
ministers that came there for condolence, making phone calls and
reporting back to whoever is their manipulator.
"They decided to get rid of Ocholi to derail the focus of the
government. Ocholi was not smart enough to know that these things could
happen. They have lost, failed and we will ask God to forgive them
because they have taken a soul that they cannot create."
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