The Chairman of Okrika Local Government Area, Hon. Akuro Tobin, has paid a condolence visit to the family of Mr and Mrs Tamunosiki Agbafika, who lost their four-years old daughter, Miss Esther Agbafika, following the collapse of the Isaka Jetty.
Hon. Tobin commiserated with the bereaved family, assuring them that God is the giver of life and takes the same whenever he pleases.
He said, “It is unfortunate that the incidence claimed your daughter’s life, we believe that God allowed it to happen and as such cannot question his authority, He gives and takes at will”.
The father of the late child, Mr. Agbafika narrated the ordeal he and his family went through, stating that the family of four were part of the incidence including his one-year-old daughter, but to the glory of God, he, his wife, and their one-year-old daughter survived while little Miss Esther went back to her creator.
He expressed heartfelt appreciation to the chairman for visiting them and also drew his attention to the need for an X-ray on the one-year-old child and his broken arm.
Hon. Tobin immediately gave them a cash sum for the child’s x-ray and promised to work on the broken arm of the father.
The Okrika Council boss used the medium to call on the general public to disregard statements from some media handles that over ten persons or more lost their lives in the incidence.
In his statement “I led the delegation to the scene a few hours after it happened, I call on everyone to disregard Media insinuations making rounds, we lost just one soul”.
He called for calmness, as the situation he said, was under control by the local government council.

By: Michael Abraham