Ademoye Adewale, a cotton candy vendor who sold snacks to Chrisland Schools Opebi students at Agege Stadium in Lagos during the school’s recent sporting events, informed the coroner appointed to determine Whitney Adeniran’s cause of death on Monday that the autopsy performed by the Lagos State Government was incorrect.
Adewale testified before Magistrate Olanike Fajana at the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Ogba that Whitney did not pass away as a result of electrocution as stated in the autopsy report. Adewale claimed to prepare Shawarma, Candy Floss, Popcorn, and Barbecue on demand.
Whitney died from asphyxia and electrocution, according to the post-mortem report published by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on March 1, 2023, according to the state government.
Adewale claimed that at all of the events where he had sold snacks, he had never had a machine electrocute him. He claimed that he did not see the deceased when she fell, but that he did witness students and teachers swarming around the student on the ground.
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The 12-year-old student apparently collapsed and passed away on February 9 at the Agege Stadium during the school’s interhouse competitions.
Adewale said the coroner at the case’s resumed hearing on Monday that the school administration had prevented him from selling Shawarma and Candy Floss at the pool on the day of the incident.
The witness, who was being cross-examined by Mr. Femi Falana SAN, the attorney for the deceased’s family, claimed to be an independent seller of the Agege Stadium, where he had registered in order to operate his business.
When Chrisland School came to inspect the stadium, they noticed Adewale and liked him, according to Adewale, who informed Magistrate Fajana that he had registered his firm in February 2013 and that he was frequently present there.
Adewale indicated that in all of the events when he sold snacks, he had never had electrocution with his machine, and that he did not see the deceased when she slumped, but he did notice students and teachers encircling the pupil on the ground.
“When I went to check what was happening, I saw teachers and pupils surrounding her and I asked what happened, they said she slumped,” he explained.
He added, “To the best of my observation, the deceased did not die of electrocution. There was no naked wire, the autopsy was erroneous and from where the deceased was, it was 5cm from where my machine was and it was unplugged.
“I don’t know if the deceased died of electrocution. Other organisations have conducted tests and there was nothing like electrocution”.
