The Lagos State Government has said that the late Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old Chrisland School student, died from asphyxia and electrocution.
This is contained in a statement from the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), on Thursday in Lagos.
The statement said that the post-mortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on Wednesday showed that the deceased cause of death revealed asphyxia and electrocution.
The statement added that the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had been instructed to issue legal advice on the matter with immediate effect.
“The Lagos State Government commiserates with the deceased family while reassuring Lagosians that anybody found culpable would immediately be charged to court,” said the statement.
BRANDPOWER reports that Onigbanjo had on Feb. 13 ordered a coroner’s inquest to ascertain the cause of death of the late Whitney, who died during the school’s inter-house sports on Feb. 9.
BRANDPOWER reported earlier today that Blessing Adeniran, the mother of 12-year-old Whitney Adeniran of Chrisland High School, Ikeja, Lagos State, who died during the school’s inter-house sport, has said her daughter died as a result of electrocution.
Recall that Whitney’s father, Dr. Michael Adeniran, had made the same claim shortly after his daughter’s death, but the school flatly denied it.
Now, the mother of the deceased said the autopsy report from the February 9, 2023 incident at the Agege Stadium in Lagos State had confirmed the position of the family.
In a video on Instagram, Blessing Adeniran said: “The autopsy result is out and Desola was electrocuted.
She went on:
“My daughter died of electrocution.
“I have been subjected to trauma for the past two weeks.
“Tomorrow will make it three weeks my baby died.
“The school made me think I was crazy.
“They started pushing the narrative of she was sick, she was sickly.
“They sent letters and publications out.
“People insulted me and my family.
“My child was electrocuted to death.
“I told the school I don’t want trouble.
“All I want is answers.
“They came to my house and knelt down.
“I begged, I pleaded, I said: ‘Mrs. Amao please, I don’t know how autopsy is being done but I have browsed it and the image is scary. Please my daughter is already dead, don’t make me put her through that, they will butcher her. I beg you in the name of God, you are a mother, help me investigate and find out what happened.’
“She said she doesn’t know.
“They refused to investigate.
“My daughter was butchered for autopsy.
“She was opened up.
“They took part of her kidney, liver, stomach contents, blood, brain, bone marrow.
“Omodesola was butchered just because Chrisland kept protecting their reputation.”
Whitney is buried:
Meanwhile, it was an emotional scene, and tears flowed as Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old student of Chrisland International School, who died on 9 February, 2023 during the school’s inter-house sports activities at Agege Stadium, Lagos State, was being 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.”
