Mr. Khaleel Umar Al-Makura, son of the Nasarawa State Governor, Umar Al-Makura, is to be prosecuted for alleged manslaughter.

He was arrested on Tuesday for the killing of a student of Government Secondary School, Lafia.

Confirming this, the police said Khaleed would be charged soon, reported the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The killing of Ovye Amos in a road accident on Monday night sparked a protest in the school.

The students took to the streets on Tuesday carrying placards with various inscriptions demanding justice for the killing of Amos, a Junior Secondary School, Class Two student.

The police, officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), teachers and government officials had intervened to calm the angry students.

The governor’s son was reported to have hit the deceased with a car, Channels TV reported.

Addressing the students at the school parade ground, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Education, Aliyu Tijjani, said that government had taken measures to ensure that the person that perpetrated the killing was brought to book.

He said he had already been arrested.

“I want to express my profound dismay and sadness over what happened here wednesday. It is unfortunate, very, very unfortunate,” he said on Tuesday.

The school’s head boy, Goodluck Agwu, had explained that Amos was hit by the car driven by Khaleed when he went out to buy batteries for his flashlight at 8 p.m.

The students, who were not satisfied with the explanation of the commissioner, continued their protest, but the police were deployed to calm them.

The police explained that they were investigating the case.

The area commander of the Lafia area office, Mr. Maikudi Shehu, assured the students that they would be briefed as events unfold. (THISDAY/NAN)

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