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Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke
The family of late Sen. Isiaka Adeleke says it will consideralllegal options against theChief Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof.Akeem Lasisi,over the autopsy conducted on the late politician.
Dr Deji Adeleke, the immediate younger brother of the deceased, told newsmenon Wednesday in Ede that the family had not received the autopsy result and would not speculate onits contents.
Adeleke, however, said the family was worried over the statement credited to Lasisi at the coroner inquest that the deceased died as a result ofoverdose of a banned injection when the result of the autopsy was yet to be delivered to it.
He said: “We state that as at now, the family has not received the autopsyreport and the family will not engage in speculations over its contents.
“However, it has come to the knowledge of the family that the LAUTECH CMD on May 15 appeared before the kangaroo inquest set up by the state government and gave evidence of the cause of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke’s deathwhen neither the family had been briefed nor the autopsy report released.”
Adeleke saidwhen the family requested for the autopsy result from the CMD on May 9, he confirmed that it was ready and that a copy of the result hadbeen given to the Osun Police Command and the Chief Pathologist at LAUTECH.
The family, he said,queried the CMD for releasinga copy of the result to the police without anygiven to the family.
Adeleke, whosaidLasisi later promised to send a copy of the result to the family on May 15, added: “The family later called the CMD to remind him of the autopsy result as promised buthe changed the story again, saying the report was not ready.
“When the family asked him when the report wouldbe ready, he responded that it would be ready ‘as soon as possible’.”
Adeleke said unknown to the family, the CMD had already appeared and testified before the coroner inquest the same day.