JUST IN: Road Accident Claims Life Of Nigerian Lawmaker

A member of the House of Representatives, representing the Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency, Hon Haruna Maitala is dead.

The lawmaker reportedly died in a road accident along Bade-Gitata road Friday night on his way to Jos.

DAILY POST gathered that Haruna Maitala died alongside his son, driver and security aide. This is coming barely a month after another lawmaker, Yuguda Killa from Jigawa State, passed on.

Mr Maitala is the third federal lawmaker to die this year. Ten federal lawmakers have died since the inauguration of the ninth assembly in 2019.