A serious twist has been added to controversy surrounding final week’s deadly accident that left former world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua injured and two of his associates useless.
Sports247 stories that the most recent twist comes from a son of Joshua’s driver, Adeniyi Kayode, who declared that it was brake failure that led to the accident alongside Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at Makun space of Sagamu.
That is in distinction with official statements by street security officers, who blamed a burst tyre and over rushing by the 47-year-old Kayode for the accident, which led to the deaths of Joshua’s energy coach, Sina Ghami, and private coach, Latif Ayodele.
The 2 late expatriates, who had been each aged 36 and long-standing private associates of Joshua, died when the SUV they had been all travelling in rammed right into a stationery truck, however the boxer and his driver escaped with minor accidents.
Nonetheless, a special approach cropped up within the story, after Kayode appeared earlier than a Justice of the Peace in Sagamu on fees of harmful driving inflicting demise, physique hurt and harm of property, in addition to driving with out a license.
Whereas the motive force’s spouse acquired agitated when the choose remanded her husband in jail pending achievement of his N5m bail circumstances, their 19-year-old son insisted that his father was harmless, and it was ‘simply an unfortunate accident.’
{The teenager}, Ifeoluwa Adeniyi advised the Day by day Mail: “It’s not his fault, if the truck wasn’t parked there illegally this wouldn’t have occurred.
“Dad is just not a quick driver; he was following the velocity restrict after which the brakes failed. He was pushing the pedal, however nothing was taking place.
“He tried to swerve and keep away from the truck parked by the aspect of the street however hit it. He’s been driving Anthony for 3 years, and he’s a superb driver.
“The household could be very upset by what’s occurred and we’re sorry for the deaths of the 2 individuals.”
