KEMI OMONIYI
The Lagos State Government says it has received the post mortem report on the cause of death of Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old student of Chrisland School, Opebi, Lagos.
In a statement signed by Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, he stated that “the Office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice has received the Post Mortem report dated 1st of March, 2023, issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, in respect of Whitney Omodesola Adeniran, who was until her demise, a student of Chrisland School, Opebi.
“The post-mortem report revealed the cause of death to be Asphyxia and electrocution.
“The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has been instructed to issue Legal Advice on the matter immediately.
“We use this medium to commiserate with Whitney’s family, even as we reassure Lagosians that anybody found culpable would immediately be charged to court.”
Meanwhile, it was an emotional scene full of tears, as Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old student of Chrisland International School, who died on February 9, 2023, during the school’s inter-house sports activities at Agege Stadium, Lagos State, was laid to rest on Thursday, 2 March.
Whitney, whose parents said was hale and hearty the morning she was taken in her school bus to the venue of the sporting event, died suddenly at the stadium.
However, the school management in a statement released after her death, said she slumped in “public view and not under any hidden circumstances.”
However, Blessing, the mother of Whitney, debunked the statement in an Instagram live video on Wednesday, saying that an autopsy carried out on her daughter revealed she died from electrocution during the school’s sports activities.
“My child was electrocuted to death,” she said before bursting into tears. “They came to my house. I said ‘Mrs Amao, I don’t know how autopsy is being done, but I have browsed it, and the image is scary.”
Blessing had earlier begged the school authorities to investigate the cause of her daughter’s death as she never wanted to go through the pains of having a pathologist cut open her child.
