EXPOSED: How Agagu family hired crashed plane – Ondo govt

The Ondo State Government, has clarified that it did not hire the aircraft of Associated Airline, which crash-landed last Thursday in Lagos while conveying the body of former governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu to Akure for the commencement of the burial rites.

In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade in Akure, the government said the clarification would not have been necessary at the time the state and families still mourning those who lost their lives in the crash, but for inaccurate media reports.


The government explained that its determination to give the former governor a befitting state burial made it to set up a burial committee, which met regularly with the family of the deceased to arrive at a burial programme agreeable to the family.

At one of the meetings, the statement said the issue of the transportation of the body from Lagos to Akure was discussed.

THE SUN