Gombe State Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation Aishatu Maigari has lost three of her brothers to car accident.
The brothers – Usman Maigari, 30; Al’amin Abdulkadir, 30 and Abdulkadir Maigari, 27 – died in an auto crash on October 31 along Gombe-Kano road on their way to Kano.
They were buried in Gombe on Sunday according to Islamic rites.
Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Yahaya in a statement commiserated with the commissioner and her family over the loss.
The governor, in a statement signed by his senior media aide Ismaila Misilli, lamented the unfortunate loss of ”these promising lives at a time the state is tapping into the vast potentials of its vibrant young men and women for the progress and development of the state. ”
He said the loss was not only for their immediate family, but the state and the nation at large.
“Governor Yahaya, on behalf of the Government and people of Gombe state, extended his deepest condolences to their father; a seasoned administrator and elder statesman, Alhaji Umar Maigari, their sister, Dr. Aishatu Umar Maigari who is the state Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation and the entire members of the Umar Maigari family over the huge loss, praying Almighty Allah to comfort them and grant the deceased Aljannat Firdaus,” the statement read.
