Nigerian singer, Ikesima Brown, famously known as Niger Delta Queen of Highlife Music, has died in a ghastly motor accident.
It was learnt that Brown died alongside six
other band members of Ijaw music legend, Chief Barrister Smooth when their bus
rammed into a petrol tanker in Abuja/Lokoja highway and Kwale community in
Delta State.
It was gathered that the fatal accident
occurred on Sunday, June 11, while the band members were heading from Warri to
Abuja for a show.
The ill-fated vehicle conveying the popular
band was engaged by a state government to play at the swearing-in reception of
National Assembly members in Abuja on Tuesday.
An eyewitness who narrated the ghastly
accident said the band members boarded a train from Warri to Kogi and were on
their way to Abuja when the Toyota Siena car in which they were travelling had
a collision with a fuel tanker, killing them at the accident spot.
The names of the deceased were given as Chief
Joseph Ekeremieye, Ikesima Brown, Ebis Awiki, Tuku, and others.
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, in a
statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, on Monday, expressed
deep sadness over the twin accidents that claimed the lives of no few than 10
Ijaw indigenes.
Diri described the sad incident as a Black
Sunday for Bayelsa and the Ijaw nation, stressing that the state has been
thrown into mourning.
The Bayelsa governor also commiserated with
the deceased families and Barrister Smooth adding that the death of the young
youths actively impacting lives through their musical talent is a great loss to
the state
He said, “In one of the crashes along the
Kogi-Abuja road, six band members of a popular Ijaw musician, Barrister Smooth,
died while the other accident along the Kwale-Asaba highway in Delta State
claimed four supporters of the Bayelsa Queens Football Club
“On behalf of the government and people of
Bayelsa State, I extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the deceased.
“I also commiserate with the leader of the
band, Barrister Smooth.
“These are very unfortunate and sad incidents
that claimed the lives of our active youths.
“It is a great loss to our state and the Ijaw
nation as young talents and bread winners following their passion had suddenly
departed.
“I pray that the Lord consoles the families
for the painful loss that they have suffered.
“I also pray for quick healing and recovery
for those that were injured.”
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