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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