Police have debunked report that a vehicle in the convoy of Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, crushed a nine-year-old girl dead in Akure, the capital of Ondo State on Thursday.
The Police denied the claim in a statement issued by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Olushola Ayanlade, on Thursday.
According to the statement, 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 Ayanlade, 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.
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.
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