Shamsuddeen Malumfashi, a Senior Special Assistant on Islamic Education to Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State, has reportedly died in a ghastly accident.
Malumfashi died on Tuesday afternoon in a car accident around the Rigachikun area of Kaduna State.
The deceased was buried at a cemetery behind Kwandala General Hospital in Malumfashi town, according to Channels Television.
The governor, alongside a member representing Malumfashi Constituency in the Katsina State House of Assembly, Aminu Ibrahim; Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Bello Kagara, and some of his aides, attended the funeral prayer and interment of the deceased on Tuesday.
The governor and his entourage were received at the family house of the deceased at Layin Yan Bori in Malumfashi by the Galadiman Katsina, District Head of Malumfashi, Sadik Mahuta, as well as the District Head of Mahuta, Bello Yan Mama.
Similarly, the governor was received at the family house of his late aide by the father of the deceased and the Chairman of Malumfashi Local Government Area, Maharazu Dayi.
Late Malumfashi was survived by his father, Abubakar Yusuf, and his mother, Jamila, as well as three wives and four children.