Nursery school staff in trouble over killing of 3-yr-old girl

Hearing of the bail application of a former staff member of a Lagos-based nursery school, Rukayat Amisu, accused of negligently killing a threeyear-old girl, could not go on yesterday due to absence of the judge.

The judge, Justice Adedayo Akintoye, of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, was absent due to, the court was told, an official duty.

The case was consequently adjourned till May 8, 2019 for the hearing of the bail application.

Amisu was arraigned on March 4, 2019 on a count charge of manslaughter and was remanded in prison.

The Lagos State prosecution counsel, Mr Babatunde Sunmonu, told the court that the accused committed the alleged offence on October 21, 2015, at 10.00am at Olab Private School, 11, Idowu Street, Lagos Island.

Sunmonu said that the defendant unlawfully killed one three-year-old Aliyah Ahmed by negligently allowing her to be burnt by hot water.

He said the defendant negligently sat the little girl on top of a container containing hot water while feeding her and the girl fell inside the hot water.

Amisu pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Her counsel, Mr A. O. Ladipo, told the court that he had filed a bail application.

At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, the court did not sit apparently because of the ongoing judges’ conference.