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Tragedy: Atyap community president, Wife, Daughter die in ghastly accident

By Gabriel Udeh, Kaduna
The President, Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA) Dr Silas Adamu, his Wife and Daughter died in ghastly motor accident in Kaduna.
The tragic incident occurred on Monday 8th March 2021, along Abuja- Kaduna expressway when the trio were returning to Kaduna from a burial in Bayelsa State.
In a condolence statement, SOKAPU’ youth wing described the incident as a big lost, not only to the Atyap Nation but to the  entire Southern Kaduna region. Kaduna state and the Nation at large.
The national of the youth Wing headed by John Isaac also extend it’s deepest condolences to the Agwam Atyap and the entire Atyap Nation over the death of the President of ACDA) Dr Silas Adamu, his beloved Wife and Daughter.
They lamented that the sad event  came at a time the entire people of the Southern Kaduna region needs the wealth of experiences of “it’s very own best(which Dr Adamu represents) especially in the ongoing peace building efforts in the region.
Similarly, the Chairman Northern Speakers Forum and Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Zailani has said that he received with rude shock the death of the President of Tsaunin Kura GRA Residents Association (Sabo GRA), Comrade Dr. Silas Adamu.
Zailani who expressed this in a statement signed by his Chief of Staff Haruna Jafaru Sambo   and made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, described his death alongside wife and daughter from a ghastly car accident along Kaduna-Abuja Highway as devastating.
“We have lost a rare gem who has contributed tremendously to his community and our dear State.
Zailani urged Sabo GRA, his immediate family, Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA) where he was president and Kaduna State to take solace in the fact that he lived a fulfilled life.
“We will surely miss him greatly, but we are consoled by the fact that his works will live long after him. I pray God grants him eternal rest and comforts his loved ones,” he added.

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