Zamfara State Governor,Governor Bello Matawalle says he will reintroduce death sentence as punitive measures to check recklessness of drivers following the accident that killed 16 supporters of the Peoples Democratic party PDP who had gone to welcome to the governor from an official trip from Abuja.
The supporters had died when a BUA company truck lost control and rammed into 4 vehicles conveying the party supporters, along Gusau/Funtua Road, killing all of them on the spot.
The governor who spoke about his decision when he led his cabinet members and the management of BUA group on a condolence visit to the Emir of Gusau, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello, on Saturday, said in addition to the death sentence, his administration will introduce speed limit gauge on highways as well as weight measurement on trucks and drug tests on drivers in order to guide against rough and reckless driving .He called on management of BUA company to call their drivers to order and caution them on acceptable speed limit.
He noted that the measures had become neccessary so that drivers and their families will no longer think they will have it easy if they kil anyone as he said that the lives of the citizens of the state were too important to be interfered with and wasted.
Matawalle therefore announced a donation of N2MILLION to families of each of the deceased,who had a wife and N1.5 million to families of those unmarried among them with a declaration that he would put the next of kins of each of the deceased party members on a N50 000 monthly allowance.
