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HUSBAND JAILED FOR ACCIDENTALLY CRUSHING WIFE TO DEATH

An Apo Division of the Federal Capital Territory, high court has sentenced Ayedun Makanjuola to four years’ imprisonment for running over and killing his wife, Adenike. Representing the FCT police commissioner, prosecution counsel, Adama Musa, had earlier charged Mr Makanjuola with culpable homicide. He informed the court that Mr Makanjuola reversed his vehicle and ran over his wife, which led to her death on May 7, 2021, after a misunderstanding. He said Mr Makanjuola reversed his car and crashed the deceased into a concrete fence, which caused her serious injuries, and rushed his wife to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Counsel to the defendant, Kolade Adeboyega, his defence, said Mr Makanjuola put the car in reverse mode in anger and mistakenly crushed his wife. He informed the court that the defendant is a responsible man and was planning a trip to bring their two children home with the deceased before the incident and urged the court to consider the children who are li