Hospital Produces Wrong Corpse Of Killed LASU Student

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

Alowonle, a College of Schooling pupil of LASU and the Coordinator, Schooling Rights Marketing campaign (ERC), Lagos State chapter was shot lifeless on Wednesday evening after Iba gate of the college whereas a employees of the establishment with him was injured.

 

He was a pupil activist, a member of the Democratic Socialist Motion (DSM) and in addition a former presidential candidate within the students union elections of 2019, had early appeared before the Students Disciplinary Panel same 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’d have been shocked that opposite to preliminary studies that late Alowonle could be buried on Friday, he ultimately was not buried.

 

His phrases:-

”I obtained 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 had 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 automobiles had ran over the ‘physique’ between the interval of 10pm Wednesday evening when he died and 5am Thursday morning it was dropped at the morgue.

 

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

In keeping with 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 unimaginable.

 

”This made the household to insist that the physique be buried the very day. These of us pushing for post-mortem had no selection however to undergo the need 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 obtained 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 choose 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 help 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 lifeless 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 had been interviewed, they claimed that the wound they noticed on the physique might solely be brought on by gunshot. This additionally coincided with the testimony of the lone survivor, Wahab Majekodunmi, who mentioned they had 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 needed the physique to be buried in order that the reality of what occurred may be buried with it, ” he acknowledged.

Taiwo defined that whereas this controversy was occurring, 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.