Seyi Odewale
The 12-year-old female student of Chrisland High School, Ikeja, Lagos, Whitney Adeniran, who died on February 9 in a mysterious circumstance was yesterday buried after an autopsy had been conducted on her body to know the cause of her death.  The late Whitney was said to have slumped and died when her school was holding its inter-house sports competition at the Agege Stadium in Agege, Lagos State.

However, her mother, Mrs Blessing Adeniran, confirmed that her daughter died of electrocution. According to her, investigation has shown that her daughter died from electrocution while taking part in the school’s sporting events at the Agege Stadium in Lagos.

Also, the Lagos State government yesterday said the late 12-year-old student died from asphyxia and electrocution.

A statement from the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), yesterday in Lagos, said the post-mortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on Wednesday showed that her cause of death revealed asphyxia and electrocution.

It 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.
In a live video on Wednesday on her official Instagram business account, Mrs Adediran said an autopsy carried out to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death revealed that it was electrocution.

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Before the autopsy, the parents of the deceased had insisted that their daughter was hale and hearty before leaving home on the said day, but the school management denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the young girl “slumped” at the stadium.

Unable to control her emotions, Mrs Adediran said she has been subjected to trauma in the last three weeks since her daughter passed on, adding that the school contributed to the trauma by allegedly “pushing false narratives to protect their reputation.

She said: “They made me think I was crazy, they started pushing the narrative that she was sick. I told them, I don’t want trouble, I want answers. They came to my house. I knelt down, begged and pleaded that I don’t want my daughter butchered for autopsy’s sake.

“I told them my daughter is already dead, and I don’t want to put her through that, and my husband told them we have been hearing rumours of electrocution and asked them to help us investigate these rumours, but they refused.

“They sent a letter to me and my husband that they just want to assure us that they did everything humanly possible to save my daughter’s life.”

Mrs Adediran added that the family would sue the school in a law court to seek redress.

Following the death of the 12-year-old student, the deceased’s parents initially accused the school management of negligence.

They took to social media to seek public intervention to unravel the circumstances that may have led to their daughter’s sudden death while taking part in the sporting events.

The parents insisted that the lack of an ambulance or first aiders at the venue of the sporting events contributed to the student’s death.

The Chairman of the school’s Advisory Board, Ike Ofuokwu, noted in a statement that the 12-year-old deceased “slumped in public view and not under any hidden circumstances.”

“Our immediate response was to take advantage of proximity by identifying the nearest medical facility to take her to, where the doctor on duty administered oxygen and every aid possible on her,” said Mr Ofuokwu