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Autopsy Report Reveals Adeniran Whitney was Electrocuted.

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9 months ago

March 3, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

Autopsy Report Reveals Adeniran Whitney was Electrocuted.

Blessing Adeniran, the deceased’s mother, said an autopsy on her daughter revealed that Whitney was electrocuted.

Adeniran, who disclosed this in a live Instagram video, lamented that the school made her go through trauma by having an autopsy on her late daughter.

The Office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State has received the Post Mortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital regarding Adeniran Omodesola Whitney, who was, until her demise, a student of Chrisland School, Opebi.

Autopsy Report Reveals Adeniran Whitney was Electrocuted.

In a statement signed on Thursday by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN, the post-mortem report, dated 1st March 2023, revealed the cause of death: Asphyxia and electrocution.

WHITNEY ADENIRAN: LAGOS ORDERS CORONER’S INQUEST

According to the statement, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions has been instructed to immediately issue Legal Advice. Onigbanjo commiserated with Whitney’s family and reassured Lagosians that anybody found culpable would immediately be charged in court.

The Lagos State Government has ordered a Coroner’s Inquest to establish the cause of death in the case of the late Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student of Chrisland School, who died on Thursday, 9th February 2023.

The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), has said, “A Coroner’s Inquest has immediately been requested in line with sections 14 and 15 of the Coroners’ Systems Law, Laws of Lagos State 2015, to determine the cause and circumstances of the student’s death”.

WHITNEY ADENIRANS DEATH.

“By Section 14 (1) (d) of the Coroners’ System Law of the State: A report of death shall be made to any of the agencies for the information of death or the office of the Coroner and be subject to post-mortem examination where there is reasonable cause to believe that the cause of death was: violent, unnatural or suspicious.