Police debunk reports linking First Lady’s convoy to death in Ondo

Police debunk reports linking First Lady’s convoy to death in Ondo

 The Police Force Ondo State Command has dismissed as false a
report claiming that a vehicle in the convoy of the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi
Tinubu, was responsible for the death of a nine-year-old girl in Akure on
Thursday.

 

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the first lady was
in Ondo State to launch the Renewed Hope Initiative Health Programme and to
distribute 10,000 professional kits. comprising Crocs and scrubs, to midwives
in the South-West zone.

 

In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Olufunmilayo
Odunlami-Omisanya, clarified that the claim, published by an online reporters,
was entirely baseless and misleading.

 

“The attention of the Ondo State Police Command has been
drawn to a false and misleading report published by Sahara Reporters on April
17.

 

“It alleged that the convoy of the first lady, Sen. Oluremi,
was responsible for the tragic death of a young girl in Akure,” the statement
read.

 

“Eyewitness accounts and preliminary investigations
conducted by the command confirm that the incident was caused by a hit-and-run
driver operating an unregistered white Lexus vehicle.

 

” And not by any vehicle associated with the first lady’s
convoy.”

 

According to command’s pokesperson, a witness ,who observed
the hit-and-run incident pursued the fleeing vehicle on a motorcycle
immediately after the crash, which occurred in the Oba-Ile area of Akure.

 

The witness accounts were corroborated by several individuals
at the scene, as well as by the victim’s parents.

 

“Furthermore, Sahara Reporters inaccurately claimed the
deceased girl was nine years old.

 

According to her parents, the child was actually seven years
old, highlighting the publication’s disregard for factual accuracy, even in a
matter as sensitive as this,” the statement added.

 

The Commissioner of Police, Ondo state command, was said to
have personally visited the grieving family and assured them of a full and
transparent investigation into the incident.

 

“At no point was the first lady’s convoy involved in this tragedy,”
the spokesperson reaffirmed.

Source: Police debunk reports linking First Lady’s convoy to death in Ondo

 - NigerianEye

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