From Our Correspondent
An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun, on Monday, remanded a driver, Lasisi Sodiq, in the correctional facility, for allegedly causing the death of an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) student.
Sodiq, 28, was charged with driving against traffic law and reckless driving.
He also faces charges bordering on manslaughter, driving without a licence and a certificate of insurance.
In a bench ruling, the Magistrate, Mrs Abosede Sarumi, ordered that the defendant be remanded at the correctional centre, pending bail application.
She also ordered the defence counsel, Mr Leke Dada, to file a formal application for his client’s bail.
Sarumi adjourned the case until Oct. 2 for mention.
Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Akintunde Jacob, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on Aug. 22, at 10.30 a.m. opposite OAU main campus, under pedestrian bridge Ife/Ibadan Road, Ile-Ife.
Jacob said that the defendant drove a Lexus car with Registration No. ABJ 427 LQ on a public highway, without adherence to traffic laws.
He added that the defendant drove recklessly and caused the death of the late Esu Ema, a student of OAU, Ile-Ife.
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The prosecutor also said that the defendant drove dangerously and without a certificate of insurance.
He added that the offences contravened Section 18 Cap 146. Vol 2, Laws of Osun and Section 7 of the Road Traffic Law, Vol 6, Cap 115, Laws of Osun, 2002.
He said that the offences also contravened Sections 21(b), 27, 139 and 142 of the Road Traffic Act, Cap 548, Laws of Nigeria, 2015.
The Defendant, however, pleaded not guilty.
TheNewsZenith recalls that Esu Rita was, on Thursday, knocked down by a Lexus jeep, allegedly driven by the accused on the Ife-Ibadan Highway in Ile-Ife.
Our Correspondent gathered that late Rita was going to the campus to submit her final year project when the accident occurred.
An eye witness had said that the deceased was attempting to cross the highway when a speeding jeep knocked her down.
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