The Lagos State Government has cleared and exonerated the five college students and five staff accused of being responsible for the death of the 11-year-old Dowen pupil, Sylvester Oromoni.
The suspects have been cleared following the Legal Advice of the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Ms. Adetutu Oshinusi.
Channels Television obtained a replica of the authorized recommendation which was addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID and the trial Justice of the Peace, Magistrate Olatunbosun Adeola.
According to the recommendation, the interim and remaining post-mortem studies issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and toxicology report of publish mortem samples and that of the Central Hospital, Warri have been in settlement as to the trigger of death specifically: Septicaemia, Lobar Pneumonia with Acute Pyelonephritis, Pyomyositis of the precise ankle and Acute Bacteria Pneumonia because of extreme Sepsis.
The end result of the toxicology check additionally revealed that there was no type of poisonous substance or poison within the physique of the deceased.
The DPP’s authorized recommendation, due to this fact, concluded that primarily based on these findings, there isn’t a prima facie case of homicide, involuntary manslaughter and or malicious administering of poison with intent to hurt towards the five college students, Favour Benjamin aged 16, Micheal Kashamu (15), Edward Begue (16), Ansel Temile (14) and Kenneth Inyang (15).
The State additionally cleared the scholars of allegations linking them to a secret or illegal society as no proof was discovered to again this up.
Excerpts from the doc states that;
“from accessible information within the duplicate case file, the investigation carried out by the Police didn’t reveal that any secret society title, tattoo or insignia of any illegal society was discovered within the possession of any of the suspects through the investigation carried out by the Police.
“To hold otherwise would amount to sniffing for an offence and a speculative act which is not permitted in law. It is trite law that suspicion no matter how grave cannot be a ground for conviction”.
The state additionally vindicated the varsity and five workers: Celina Uduak, Valentine Igboekweze, Hammed Ayomo Bariyu, Adesanya Olusesan Olusegun and one Adeyemi of the offence of Negligent Act Causing Harm opposite to part 252 of the Criminal Law Ch. C17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State 2015.
The Lagos State Govt additional known as for the instant launch of the suspects if any was nonetheless in police custody.
However, Dowen College remains to be closed.
See screenshots of the assertion beneath:
Source: Channels Television
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