At Last, Suntai’s Aides Leave For Germany

SECURITY aides to Taraba State governor, Danbaba Suntai, have been flown to Germany, to join their principal with whom they were involved in an air crash.

They left the National Hospital, Abuja, about 8.02am yesterday and were airborne about 9.05am aboard an air ambulance, a MED EVAC aircraft, Challenger 601, registered D-BUSY.

The three officials had been at the National Hospital, receiving treatment they sustained in the air crash.

There was public outcry over Governor Suntai’s journey abroad to seek treatment without the three aides, who were in same flight with him.

Suntai left for Germany last Sunday to receive further treatment for injuries he sustained during the crash of the plane he was piloting.

It was gathered that the governor’s ADC, Dasat Iliya, is in dire need of expert medical intention “while the other two aides with reduced injuries were joining in the trip to avoid further public outcry.”

The other security aides are the Chief Security Officer (CSO), Timo Dangana, and the Chief Detail to Suntai, Joel Danladi.

As the personal physician to Suntai, Dr. Ahmed Kara, told some journalists: “The trip by the ADC is warranted, as he needs some further treatment but the other two can be handled here and have already been handled.

“But the governor doesn’t know their conditions; so, we decided to take them to Germany so they can see their governor and their governor can see them. That way, they can know that what we are telling them is true.”

Dr. Kara blamed the delay in airlifting on Wednesday, as initially proposed, on delays in visa procurement.

Meanwhile, the decision to fly the governor’s three aides to Germany maybe political, rather than being informed by medical judgment.

It was learnt that the National Hospital is sufficiently equipped and has adequately skilled medical personnel to handle the cases of the two — Danladi and Dangana — whose injuries were not very serious.

Sources said Rene, the hospital, felt only the governor’s Aide De Camp, Dasat Iliya, needed some medical attention abroad, “as the other aides were doing well and that even Iliya had started talking, if slowly.”