Late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr: Group Seeks Immediate Release Of Coroner Inquest Findings On Cause Of Death

The group noted in the state­ment that it has become very necessary for the coroner to im­mediately declare its findings in order for the parties involved to be able to take their next line of action in ensuring that justice prevails.

It decried a situation where its taking the Hon. Coroner al­most two years to investigate the cause of death of their son, noting that such prolonged in­vestigation was no longer in the best interest of the members as it had started raising doubts on their transparency and raising suspicions n of compromise in the entire process and the pur­pose for which it was set up to achieve.

According to the statement, “It’s unthinkable to see that a Coroner Inquest that is usually set up with specific terms of ref­erence and a short time frame to accomplish its findings and submit its findings to enable parties involved take the next line of action open to them in any particular case is now the one foot dragging to make the report public.”

“From our little experience of how Coroner Inquest works, the members are allowed to sit even on Sundays, in order to be able to meet up within the specified time frame it’s being given but, in the case, we have an Inquest that adjourns for two months, come back to sit brief­ly again and then take another three months adjournment for no good reasons.”

“Gradually, it’s becoming very obvious that the coroner is deliberately doing this to frus­trate the family of the deceased to give up on the case, as we want to believe that there is more to the coroner’s delay tactics in this matter than meets the ordinary eye.”NYSC Portal