TRIBUNE
The Father of a 12-year-old student of Chrisland High School, Whitney Adeniran, who died on February 9, 2023, during the school inter-house sport at Agege stadium, has testified before a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja.
Mr Adeyemi Adeniran testified to Justice Oyindamola Ogala that his daughter, “Whitney is not sickly” but had under cross-examination stated that the cause of her death might have been a heart attack but he did not believe it because the autopsy result says otherwise and he suspected that it might have been an electrocution.
Led-in examination in chief by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, Adeniran told the court that his wife called him from the office to come to Agege, the hospital she (Whitney) was taken to after the incident at Agege stadium.
He gave evidence in an ongoing trial of the staff of the school: Ademoye Adewale, Kuku Fatai, Belinda Amao, and Nwatu Victoria who were slammed on two counts charge by the state government.
The state had arraigned them on offence bordering on alleged involuntary manslaughter, reckless and negligent manner that endangered her life.
Their offences contravened the provision of Sections 224 and 251 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. They all pleaded not guilty to all the count’s charges.
The father of the deceased in a moody manner narrated, “On the day of the incident, February 9, my daughter left home on her usual way to school. It was the day for their inter-house sport at Agege Stadium. She left home very healthy, nothing was wrong with her.
“I arrived at my office, in the afternoon, and the mother called me that she was told at the stadium that Whitney slumped and she has been rushed…
