Chief Magistrate Court Yola town in Adamawa state on Thursday remanded the son of late former President Musa Yar'Adua, in prison custody for killing 4 people in an auto crash in Yola.
The son of the erstwhile president, Aminu Musa Yar'Adua, and Student of Abti American University (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving on the 23th June, 2021.
This is coming as families of the victims are demanding the whooping sum of N15 million as compensation from the 36 year old son of the former president.
NEWS PLATFORM recalled that Aminu, had while driving a 4matic mercedes benz jeep along Yola bye pass on that fateful day, lost control due to over speeding as a result of which he knocked down 6 people out of which 4 were reportedly killed, while 2 others sustained injuries.
Those that died in the accident incude; Aisha Umar(30), Aisha Mamadu(32), Suleiman Abubakar(2) and Jummai Abubakar (30), while Rejoice Annu(28) and Hajara Aliyu(27) sustained injuries.
According First Information Report(FIR) tendered in court by the prosecutor, Inspector Zakka Musa, all the victims hailed from Sabon Pegi in Yola South Local Government Area.
It told the court that the relatives of late Aisha Umar, Suleiman Abubakar and Jummai Abubakar are demanding the sum of N15 million from the defendant as compensation.
But when the FIR was read to the defendant as prayed by Inspector Zakka Musa, he denied committing the offence, saying that the allegation is not true.
It was as a result of that that the prosecutor pleaded with the court to adjourn the matter to enable the prosecution duplicate the case file and forward it to the Department of Public Prosecution(DPP) Ministry of Justice Yola for legal advice.
Ruling, Magistrate Jummai Ibrahim, adjourned the matter to the 19th August, 2021, for further mention, and ordered that the ex-president's son be remanded in prison custody till then.
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