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| Late Adetunji Adeleke |
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By Toye Faleye
The family of the late Isiaka Adeleke has alleged that both the Chief
Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching
Hospital, Professor Akeem Lasisi, and the Chief Pathologist of the same
institution, Dr Taiwo Solaja, who carried out an autopsy on the deceased
senator, have been compromised in the efforts of the family to find cause of
the death of their son and brother. They described the conducts of both Lasisi
and Solaja as unethical, unprofessional and utterly ridiculous.
In a press release issued with regards to this allegation and signed by Mr.
Deji Adeleke, the family also decried non accessibility to the report of the
autopsy and the remaining sample of the tissues taken from the body of their
late son by LAUTECH. The remaining sample of the tissue, according to the
family, would have enabled them seek the conduct of a second autopsy from a
neutral medical facility.
The family did not also have faith in the Coroner Inquest organized by the
Osun State Government, where in the press conference addressed on May 6, it had
stated that it would not participate nor co-operate with the body, because the
report of the inquest was already pre-determined and designed to serve
government’s interest.
The family on May 9 had requested for the autopsy after the expiration of
two weeks period for the completion of the same after which Lasisi told the
family that the report was in the custody of Osun State Police Command, while
another copy was with Solaja.
According to the family, when Lasisi was questioned on why the report was
given to Police and no copy given to the family, he was said to have changed
the story saying, the autopsy was conducted at the Nigerian Police Forensic
Laboratory in Lagos.
The family also stated that it was not happy that Solaja told the Coroner
Inquest on May 19 that the it was not entitle to the autopsy report, because it
was the Chief Medical Director that gave him (Solaja) an instruction to carry
out the autopsy, which the family said was a lie.
Earlier, the deceased body had been taken to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital,
with a written letter signed by one Mrs Dupe Adeleke-Sanni, requesting that an
autopsy be conducted. However, no receipt, according to the family was issued
to that effect.
The family said it had maintained that it would not fight anyone over the
passing of their son, but only desired to know the cause(s) of his sudden
death, which informed the ordering of the autopsy by the family.
However, taking solace in God, the family has stated that it would rest its
case and leave everything to God for now.
In its report, Solaja has attributed
the cause of Adeleke’s death to “multiple aspiration” or choking due to drug
overdose. In addition to drug overdose, Solaja stated that his team also found
excessive alcohol, sedatives, and painkillers such as Diazepam and Analgin in
the body of the late senator.
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