Former director, his daughter perish in highway crash
SAME, KILIMANJARO: Former Director of Administration and Human Resource Management on the Office of the Treasury Registrar, Amos Nnko, has died in a tragic automotive accident occurred in Same, Kilimanjaro Region.
In a press release issued on Monday by Treasury Registrar Nehemia Mchechu confirmed the accident, which occurred on Sunday afternoon.
The assertion additionally revealed that Nnko’s eldest daughter, Maureen Nnko, misplaced her life within the crash.
Meanwhile, his spouse, Agnes Nnko, and two youngsters, Marilyn and Melvin, together with one other member of the family, Sylvana, are receiving therapy at KCMC and Mawenzi hospitals.
“The funeral arrangements are being coordinated by the family in collaboration with the Office of the Treasury Registrar,” the assertion famous.
This incident provides to a sequence of deadly accidents through the end-of-year festive season.
On Saturday, a crash in Kabukome, Nyarubango Ward, Biharamulo District, in Kagera area, claimed 11 lives and left 16 others injured.
Earlier, on December 18, a collision between a truck and a passenger bus in Mikese, alongside the Morogoro-Dar es Salaam freeway, left 15 folks useless.
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Reacting to the alarming development, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been issuing varied directives to the police drive and highway security authorities take measures for the traits.
Following the December 18 accident, she instructed the Tanzania Police Force to implement a driver’s license level system.
President Samia defined that the brand new system will deduct factors for visitors violations, finally figuring out whether or not drivers can hold their licenses.
She emphasised that this technique will substitute the present method the place offenders pay fines and proceed driving which described as ineffective in enhancing highway security.
