A drunk soldier (names withheld) attached to a Brigadier in Ogoja, Cross River State, last Sunday, killed three persons and shattered his own legs, when he drove his Honda Accord car recklessly.
Sources said the military man took his girlfriend (names withheld) to Okuku, the town close to brigade for the Yala new festival celebration and allegedly got drunk.
He decided to return to the barracks located a kilometre away against the advice of his host.
A source said: “He was drunk and we advised him to allow someone drive the car to the barracks but he refused.
“It was while he was speeding back that he hit an Okada (commercial motorcycle) and the car ran into a tree, killing the two boys on the Okada and his girlfriend.”
The woman, a mother of two, was said to have lost her husband, a soldier, to the Boko Haram violence in Maidu-guri, Borno State. in 2010.
Her younger brother said she was the one sustaining the family.
He said: “We don’t know what to do, because we feed from the profit she made from selling drinks.”
IT IS A PITY
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