Investigation Into Whitney Adeniran’s Death Concludes With A Post-Mortem Reporting The Cause Of Her Death

• Whitney slumped and died at the venue of her school’s inter-house sports event on February 9, 2023.

• Her parents alleged that Chrisland Schools, her school, was negligent in handling events that led to her death.

• The Lagos government consequently ordered a coroner’s inquest into the 12-year-old’s death and the report has been released.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the Office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, has received the post-mortem report on the death of Whitney Adeniran, a student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Lagos.

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The attorney-general made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday.

He said the post-mortem report is dated 1st of March, 2023, and issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

The 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,” Onigbanjo said.

“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.”

Earlier on Wednesday night, Blessing Adeniran, the deceased’s mother, through a live video broadcast, said before the autopsy, representatives of the school had denied knowledge of Whitney’s cause of death and claimed she was sickly.

She said she begged them to investigate as she did not want to go through the pain of having a pathologist cut open her child.

“My child was electrocuted to death,” Blessing 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, who explained how stomach contents, blood, bone marrow, kidney parts, and parts of Whitney’s brain were extracted for the autopsy, said it was difficult for her to live through it.

“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,” the distraught mother said.

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She also accused the school’s principal of using lawyers to intimidate her and attempting to bury the matter so it did not escalate.

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