UPDATE: MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE AND 3-CHILDREN,NARRATES HOW HE RECEIVED THE NEWS OF THEIR DEATH.{PHOTOS}.

     ‘How I received news of death of my wife, three kids’

Tavershima Jebe, a Tiv man from Benue State, who lost his wife and three children in a fatal accident on the Nassarawa Eggon-Lafia road in Nasarawa State, has told The Nation how he received the news of the accident.

Jebe, who intermittently betrayed emotion and wept profusely at his David Jebe Street, Logo 1, opposite First Bank, Makurdi, home, said he drove his wife, Comfort and the three children, David Iorwuese, 10, Beauty Iwuese, seven, and Favour Dooshima, three, to Benue Links Transport Company park in Abuja.

He said after they boarded an 18-seater bus to Makurdi, he bade them farewell, not knowing that it would be last contact with his lovely family.

Jebe said after a short while, his wife called his phone, but it was raining heavily in Abuja and he was driving, so he did not pick her calls.

Jebe, who said his world had crumbled, said when he later called his wife, the number was no longer going, “so I phoned Benue Links Company’s number and was told that the company’s vehicle from Abuja to Makurdi had a fatal accident and only one woman survived.”

He said he phoned one of his friends in Lafia, Nasarawa State, who rushed to the scene of the accident, while he also rushed to the scene in his vehicle from Abuja.

Jebe said when he arrived the scene, he found out that his wife and two children had died, while the third kid was alive, but sustained serious injuries and was in pains.

He said he took the victims (his family) in his car and with the help of his friend; they drove to Makurdi, adding while on the road, he phoned someone at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi to arrange for the treatment of his child who survived the accident.

Jebe said when he got to the hospital, he discovered that the gates were locked and was told that the doctors were on strike.

“I rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Makurdi, but it was the same story. As I turned back in search of another medical facility, my kid died,” he said in tears.

Jebe described the incident as an act of God. “Who am I to question God? I thank God for everything.”

The funeral of the Jebe 4 was today in Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue State.

Governor Samuel Ortom yesterday received and condoled with Jebe at the Government House, Makurdi.More photos below.