Dowen College students’ death: Lagos govt. clears school, students, staff of wrongdoing, orders resumption of school
The Lagos State Government has absorbed the staff, five Dowen College students of wrongdoing in the death of Sylvester Oromoni. It has also ordered that the school closed aftermath of the death of Sylvester be reopened.
In a Legal Advice by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos State, Ms. Adetutu Oshinus and addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) and the trial Magistrate, Magistrate Olatunbosun Adeola, the DPP also cleared Dowen College of complicity.
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According to the advice, the interim and final autopsy reports issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and toxicology report of postmortem samples and that of the Central Hospital, Warri were in agreement as to the cause of death. The reports agreed that Dylvy died of Septicaemia, Lobar Pneumonia with Acute Pyelonephritis, Pyomyositis of the right ankle and Acute Bacteria Pneumonia due to severe Sepsis.
The result of the toxicology was also not indicative of any toxic or poisonous substance in the body of the deceased.
Based on these findings, the DPP advised that there is no prima facie case of murder, involuntary manslaughter and or malicious administering of poison with intent to harm against the five students, Favour Benjamin aged 16, Micheal Kashamu (15), Edward Begue (16), Ansel Temile (14) and Kenneth Inyang (15).
The state also cleared the minors of belonging to unlawful society due to insufficient facts to establish the offence.
It stated that “from available facts in the duplicate case file, the investigation carried out by the Police did not reveal that any secret society name, tattoo or insignia of any unlawful society was found in the possession of any of the suspects during 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”.
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The state also cleared the school and five employees: Celina Uduak, Valentine Igboekweze, Hammed Ayomo Bariyu, Adesanya Olusesan Olusegun and one Adeyemi of the offence of Negligent Act Causing Harm contrary to section 252 of the Criminal Law Ch. C17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State 2015.
The state, therefore, directed that all the suspects in custody be released.
