The Sokoto State Police Command has rearraigned a student, Aliyu Sunusi Umar, who knocked down a fellow student, Fatima Suleiman with a car as a result of which one of her legs was amputated hours after her final exam.
The magistrate on Monday, August 22, remanded the culprit in the Sokoto Correctional Centre till next Monday when the case would come up for further hearing.
Fatima, a 16-year-old final year student of Khalifa International Model located along Nana Asma’u Road Sokoto, was hit by the culprit on the school’s graduation day last week.
It was gathered that Fatima and her friends came out from the exam hall after writing their final examination, amidst jubilation, exchanging contacts and signing autographs.
It was during this joyful moment that she received a call from her mother that she was on her way to pick her up.
Speaking to Daily Trust, Fatima said she and her friends then went and sat outside the school premises to wait for her mother.
At that moment, the student from another school came around in his car to display some stunt driving.
“I was sitting with my friends when the guy came on high speed and splashed stagnated water on us. We reported him to our school authority and he was asked to leave the area,” she narrated.
“But instead of heeding to their warning, he continued with his stunt driving and then lost control of the car. We tried to escape but unfortunately for me, I missed a step and fell down and the vehicle ran over one of my legs but my two friends were lucky to escape unhurt,”
“I was then brought to the Trauma Centre of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital where after examination, the doctors concluded that my limb has to be amputated in order to save my life,” she said.
Fatima said her ambition is to become a medical doctor, adding that what befell her would not stop her from achieving her ambition.
“I have been nurturing this ambition for long because my father is a medical doctor. I wrote JAMB this year and scored 230,” she said.
Her father, Dr Suleiman Sabah, said he was in his office at the Federal
