Monday, May 26, 2014

Late ASUU President’s Widow To Sue Kogi State Govt Over Husband’s Death

                              


The widow of former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Mrs Grace Iyayi has gotten from a permission from a Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC to prosecute those allegedly responsible for his death.

It will be recalled that the former ASUU president, Prof Iyayi died in a motor accident on November 12, last year, at Banda, on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway as he was going for a national convention in Kano. The accident involved the car in which he and some others were travelling for the union’s meeting and the convoy of the Kogi State Governor Idris Wada.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court granted the ex parte application for leave to apply for an order of mandamus, brought on behalf of Mrs Iyayi and ASUU by the law firm of Falana and Falana Chambers who also is praying the court for a declaration that the failure of the FRSC to prosecute the driver and the construction firm, after its (FRSC’s) post-accident investigation revealed that they caused the ex-ASUU leader’s death, is illegal and unconstitutional.

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