The governor spoke when he visited two survivors of Tuesday’s accident at the Specialist Hospital and the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja.
He promised to foot the bill of their treatment.
The governor said though it is not possible to make laws banning night driving, he said government will support continuous and intense patrol of the highway.
The governor who condoled with the families of the deceased, donated N100,000 to the survivors. He directed the management of the hospitals to forward the cost implication of keeping the corpses of the dead especially the cost of embalmment and other mortuary charges, to the government.
Kogi State Governor Ibrahim Idris yesterday promised to intensify efforts in tackling the incessant cases of armed robbery in the state.
