Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, and Senior Advocate James Enojo Ocholi, died in an accident, which claimed the lives of his wife and one of his sons on the Kaduna-Abuja highway, on his way back from Kaduna, in the noon hours of Sunday, 6 March, 2016.
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Barrister James Ocholi during his ministerial appointment screening |
Information revealed that the Jeep in-which the minister was travelling in with his wife and son had a burst tyre causing it to run into other vehicles in the convoy, the jeep somersaulting several times, Ocholi, and son died on the spot, while his his wife went into coma and passed later at Doka hospital in Kaduna.
The driver and aide-de-camp are in critical condition and has been transferred to the National hospital, Abuja.
James Ocholi was 55.