Justice Oyindamola Ogala of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja was on Thursday told how a 12 years old student of Chrisland High School Opebi, Adeniran Whitney died on February 9, 2023 at Agege stadium during the School Inter-house sport. Independent reports.Information Guide Nigeria
The deceased father, Mr. Adeyemi Michael Adeniran narrated before the court that his daughter, Whitney is not sickly but the autopsy result and his suspicion was that she might have died of electrocution.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaWhile being led-in examination in chief by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Dr. Babajide Martins, Mr. Adeniran told court that his wife called him from office to come to Agege, the hospital she (Whitney) was taken to after the incident at Agege stadium.
He gave evidence in an ongoing trial of the staff of the school: Ademoye Adewale, Kuku Fatai, Belinda Amao, and Nwatu Victoria who were slammed on two counts charged by the state government.
The state had arraigned them on offence bordering on alleged involuntary manslaughter, reckless and negligent manner that endangered her life.
Their offences contravened the provision of Sections 224 and 251 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
They all pleaded not guilty to all the counts.
The father of the deceased narrated: “On the day of the incident, February 9, my daughter left home on her usual way to school. It was the day for their inter-house sport at Agege Stadium. She left home very healthy, nothing was wrong with her.
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“I had arrived my office, in the afternoon, the mother (my wife, Blessing Adeniran) called me that she was told at the stadium that Whitney slumped and she has been rushed to the hospital. She said she was at the stadium; she was informed after she had been taken to the hospital.
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She said she was told by the principal that Whitney was already coming up before she was taken to the hospital. After about 10 minutes she called, saying that I should come to Agege Central Hospital.
“So immediately, I dropped everything I was doing, proceeded to Agege. It took me about 45 minutes to locate the place because I could not find the place on Google map. Eventually, when I arrived, I saw my wife by the road side, waving at me to stop. I got out of the car, I told my personal assistant (P.A) to leave the car on so as to quickly pick her up.”
He continued that his wife told him to go inside and pray for his daughter, maybe she will wake up. “When I got inside I saw her lifeless body on a table in a small room. In my mind, I thought she was given an injection, maybe she was sleeping. In that room, I saw some teachers, so I went close to my daughter, I raised her up to my body, shouted, tapped her to wake up. I prayed and nothing happened. I shouted, I tapped her severally, nothing happened.JAMB Result
“I asked for the doctor of the facility standing in a small room like a reception. I knelt down before the woman (doctor) to do whatever she could to wake my daughter up. She responded that there is nothing she can do, that she was brought in dead. I stood up and went back to the room where she was lying down, the nurse was still standing close to her. I asked the nurse what happened to her.
“The school nurse said she slumped. She said she was already dilated, she was not breathing anymore. She said that she had already died at the stadium before she was brought to the hospital. But she cannot pronounce her dead, because she is not a medical doctor. So I said you only brought her to be pronounced dead. She said yes. After that, the doctor in charge of the clinic came to me and said they need to wrap her up so that microbes will not enter her body and begin to swell up.
“The doctor said she needed some money, so I gave her N8,000.00. She later came back and said she needed more money, I gave her N7000 at that point, I called some of my friends that lived close to that Agege Central Hospital. They all arrived and asked if I had reported the case to the police officially. So, they left for the police station. As soon as they left for the police station, the doctor at the hospital came to me and said she would like to see me in private.NYSC Portal
“The doctor told me that she would advise me not to waste time in burying my daughter, she really persuaded me. She said I should make sure I bury her on time and not put her in the morgue and not to say I want to conduct an examination. At that point, I nearly agreed as I don’t even know of any morgue.
“Prior to that day of the incident, we played together, she never complained, I remember when I came from Abuja, I even gave her a soft drink. The following day, there was no complaint of ill health. So I started telling myself why I should bury my daughter in a hurry without knowing what happened to her. She said the money and the pain I will go through in the process of autopsy. I told her what other pain is worse than the death of a child and how much money will I spend to bring her back alive. I said I must get a closure of what happened.”