Shamsuddeen Malumfashi, a Senior Special Assistant on Islamic Education to Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State, is dead.
Malumfashi died in a motor accident outside Rigachikun in Kaduna State on Tuesday afternoon and was buried in a cemetery behind Kwandala General Hospital in Malumfashi town.
His father, Abubakar Yusuf, and mother, Jamila, as well as three marriages and four children, survive him.
Governor Radda attended the funeral prayer and interment of the deceased on Tuesday, along with the member representing Malumfashi Constituency in the Katsina State House of Assembly, Aminu Ibrahim; the Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Bello Kagara; and several of his personal aides.
They 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; alongside the District Head of Mahuta, Bello Yan Mama.
Also at the family house to receive the governor were the father of the deceased and the Chairman of Malumfashi Local Government Area, Maharazu Dayi.