Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has promised that the Federal Government will take care of the family of Ali Gomina, the police inspector who was knocked down while clearing the road for the number two citizen’s motorcade on Friday.
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Paying a condolence visit to the family in Gui, Abuja, Osinbajo said he would ensure all is done to make the family comfortable.
The late Gomina who lost his first wife, Ajara, on September 29, 2016, is survived by his second wife, Asiya, and 12 children.
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His second son, Abdullahi, and first daughter, Hafsat, described the deceased as the best father anyone could ask for.
They, however, appealed to the government to offer them scholarship to enable all of them go to school. They also cried out for help to enable them complete a house he had started to enable the family move in.
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Laolu Akande, spokesman of the VP, said the government would look into the family’s needs. He said the children’s request for scholarship would not be a problem at all.
“The vice-president has come to commiserate and console with the family of late Inspector Ali Gomina that lost his life during official duty. He was killed when a vehicle rammed into him, another vehicle came and hit him and threw him against another oncoming trailer. The vice-president had immediately aborted the trip and said he was going to come today.
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“He had asked us to come ahead of him yesterday and inform the family and the village head. He came today personally to express his condolence to late Gomina’s family, wife, children and the entire community. And to say himself and the federal government of Nigeria will continue to support and do everything that is necessary to comfort this family. He is greatly saddened by what has happened. We will support in all necessary ways,” he said.
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