Drama As Hospital Produces Wrong Corpse Of Killed LASU Student For Burial

Controversy has continued to path the killing of a scholar of Lagos State College (LASU), Ojo, Nurudeen Alowonle, as mortuary attendants on the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, produced a flawed corpse for the household, activists and associates who had gathered to select the corpse for burial on Friday.

Alowonle, a College of Training scholar of LASU and the Coordinator, Training Rights Marketing campaign (ERC), Lagos State chapter was shot demise on Wednesday night time after Iba gate of the college whereas a workers of the establishment with him was injured.

He was a scholar activist, a member of the Democratic Socialist Motion (DSM) and in addition a former presidential candidate within the college students union elections of 2019, had early appeared earlier than the College students Disciplinary Panel identical day in an alleged contrived case of admission racketeering.

In a press release, the Nationwide Coordinator of (ERC), Hassan Taiwo, mentioned ”a lot of you’ll have been stunned that opposite to preliminary reviews that late Alowonle can be buried on Friday, he finally was not buried.

His phrases: ”I received to the morgue of Mainland Hospital Yaba within the morning of Friday, August twentieth. I met Nurudeen Yusuf within the presence of some docs and different properly wishers. We have been proven what was mentioned to be the stays of Alowonle. It was nothing greater than a mass of entrails which was extremely decomposed and put collectively in a physique bag.

”The mortuary attendants mentioned those that introduced the ‘physique’ – the Lagos State Environmental Company claimed that autos had ran over the ‘physique’ between the interval of 10pm Wednesday night time when he died and 5am Thursday morning it was delivered to the morgue.

”Upon seeing the state of the alleged physique, we needed to protest that there was no means to determine the entrail as a human entrail not to mention a human physique. We mentioned there was no means we may current this to the household because the ‘physique’ of their son. Our protest together with the help of sympathetic scholar docs who studied in LASU and the HOD Pathology, finally led to the revelation by the mortuary attendant that they made a mistake and introduced to us a flawed physique.”

In response to him, the mortuary attendants introduced one other physique which was that of Alowonle. He noticed that the physique had a gap by the aspect just below the rib cage on the left hand aspect of the chest.

Taiwo defined that pressure started to construct up and following dialogue, it was agreed that an post-mortem be carried out however the ongoing doctors strike made it not possible.

”This made the household to insist that the physique be buried the very day. These of us pushing for post-mortem had no alternative however to undergo the will of the household. The household additionally gave us the appropriate to decide on any befitting burial place for him.”

He mentioned some activists processed and received paperwork for the physique to be launched for burial however the disclosure by the Divisional Police Office of Adoff that the police claimed a patrol discovered the physique round 10pm and referred to as the Lagos State environmental company to select the physique.

Stated he: ”The company didn’t present up till 5am the following morning. Throughout this time, there was no report that the police provided any first assist help to Alowonle and even tried to take him to the hospital to see if he may very well be revived. As everyone knows, solely a professional medical personnel, and never the police, can declare a physique useless or lifeless.

”Secondly, the DPO claimed that the police patrol was across the neighborhood the place the assault and killing came about however police mentioned they weren’t shot however stabbed. When the mortuary attendants who ready Alowonle’s physique and sutured his wound have been interviewed, they claimed that the wound they noticed on the physique may solely be attributable to gunshot. This additionally coincided with the testimony of the lone survivor, Wahab Majekodunmi, who mentioned they have been shot.

”The final straw that will break the camels again was the request of the DPO that the household should swear an affidavit that they’d not demand an post-mortem as a precondition for launch of the physique. In fact, this request raised suspicion as to the motive of the police. It appeared to us that the police simply wished the physique to be buried in order that the reality of what happened might be buried with it, ” he acknowledged.

Taiwo defined that whereas this controversy was happening, a directive got here from the Chief Pathologist of Lagos State, Prof John Obafunwa, to the mortuary that the physique shouldn’t be launched till an post-mortem is carried out.