A 50-year-old truck owner, Kilani Ojo Adesanya and 31-year-old driver of the truck, Wasiu Adeleke, who allegedly killed three people due to reckless and dangerous driving, have been remanded in prison custody.
DAILY POST recalls that the said truck had on 2 September, fallen and killed three people at the Ojuelegba area of Lagos State. Adeleke, was arraigned before the Ojuelegba Magistrate Court on 11-count charge bordering on gross negligence and reckless disregard for human life, reckless and dangerous driving, driving in public highway without valid driver’s licence and a valid MOT Test Certificate and Adesanya, 50, was arraigned on two-count charge of giving the truck to a driver without driving documents.
According to reports at the resumed hearing of the matter on Wednesday, the Prosecutor, Inspector Chinalu Uwadione, informed the court of an application by the police to substitute the charges against each of the defendants.
Earlier, the duo’s counsel, Mr. W. O. Toriola, had vehemently opposed that their plea be taken in a consolidated charge against them. Toriola had objected saying that the business of the day was for the court to rule on their bail application, stressing that the police cannot apply for the substitution of the charges rather, such can only be consolidated.
He therefore prayed the court for an adjournment, to enable him file a formal application in objection to the substitution of the charges against his clients.
Folashade Botoki, the Court Magistrate, at the instance of the counsel, adjourned the matter till 12 October, and ordered that the duo be returned to prison custody.
“The duo’s remands are hereby extended as a result of the objection raised by their counsel. They are to spend 20 more days in prison custody,” Botoki ruled.
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