A member of the House of Representatives, Haruna Maitala, is dead.
Haruna Maitala died on Saturday morning following a road accident along Bade-Gitata road on Friday night on his way to Jos. He died alongside his son, driver and security aide, who were all in the vehicle,
Until his death, he represented Jos North/Bassa federal constituency of Plateau State.
His death came barely a month after another lawmaker, Yuguda Killa from Jigawa State, passed on.
Mr Maitala is the third federal lawmaker to die this year. About ten federal lawmakers have died since the inauguration of the ninth assembly in 2019.
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