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A former Military Administrator of Delta State, Col David Dungs (retd.), slumped and died in Jos on Friday.
Dungs, 61, was said to have slumped in his Jos residence less than 48 hours after his father died.
His death followed closely on the heels of his Berom kinsman, former Deputy Senate President, Senator John Wash Pam, who died on Thursday.
While Dungs hailed from the the troubled Riyom Local Government area, Wash Pam was from Barakin Ladi.
The news of his death was confirmed by the Plateau State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Olivia Dazem.
She told our correspondent in a telephone interview that the news of the death of Dungs was communicated to Governor Jonah Jang, who is Dungs’ kinsman, less than 10 minutes after the incident.
The commissioner said the governor was devastated and too shocked to talk.
“Baba got the news few minutes ago and he is in Jishe (Government House and Lodge) right now and he is just not ready to talk,” he said.
A former Minister of State, Agriculture, Dr. Jonah Madudu, expressed shock that in less than 24 hours, the Berom nation had lost two worthy sons.
“This is a tragedy because his father’s corpse is right now in the mortuary,” he said.
Dungs could be remembered as Delta State military administrator from August, 1996 to August, 1998, when his decision to move the headquarters of the Warri LG area from Ogbe-Ijoh, an Ijaw town, to Ogidigben in the Itsekiri area, sparked a wave of violence among the Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo.
