00:00The trial of the driver involved in the crash that injured boxer Anthony Joshua and killed two members of his
00:07team has been adjunct November 17.
00:09Adeni Kayode faces charges including dangerous driving, causing death, reckless driving and driving without due care and attention.
00:18The defense counsel said that the case was an important one and that it shows that Nigeria's system was quite
00:24strong in handling such matters.
00:26It's a very, very important case and it is important not to Nigeria alone or Nigerians alone.
00:36It is as well important to people in the diaspora that the legal system is not a kind of system
00:43that can be toyed with or is a system that can be maneuvered.
00:47Prosecutors allege he was overtaking another vehicle when the SUV carrying Joshua and his team hit a stationary truck on
00:55the Lagos Aibadan Expressway in December.
00:59Joshua survived the crash but his trainer Latif Ayodele and coach Sinagami were killed.
01:06The longer this case takes, you understand, or being adjunct really affects my clients because it's not easy for him
01:15to be coming to court.
01:18Whenever the case is adjunct, we'll make sure that he comes to court, he leaves whatever he's doing.
01:25He's a driver.
01:26He leaves whatever he's doing and comes to the wrong road court so that he will not be adjunct to
01:32a jump bill.
01:37The case is being held in Ogun State.
01:39Police told the court in earlier proceedings that both vehicles had been removed from the scene before investigators arrived.
01:46The driver is also being charged with operating a vehicle without a valid national driver's license.
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