We Paid For Autopsy, Not Government – Adeleke’s Family Insist

Abdulrofiu Agboola

The family of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke has insisted that they took their brother to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology for autopsy.

Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke

They faulted the claim by the chief pathologist of LAUTECH, Dr Taiwo Solaja, that the late senator’s family is not entitled to the autopsy report on the grounds that it was his boss and Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Professor Akeem Lasisi, that gave him the instruction to conduct the autopsy and not the Adeleke’s family.

Recall that the Chief Pathologist, Dr Taiwo Solaja, had, on May 19, 2017, told the coroner inquest instituted by Governor Rauf Aregbesola to determine the cause of the death of Adeleke, that it was unethical to submit the autopsy report to the Adeleke’s family.

He said the family was not the ones that ordered for it but the coroner under the instruction of the chief medical director.

The immediate younger brother of the late senator, Dr Deji Adeleke in a press statement issued and made available to pressmen in Osogbo, Osun state capital expressed the family’s dissatisfaction with the manner the autopsy report was handled by the pathologist and the hospital authority yesterday described the claim as complete falsehood, unjustifiable, unethical, unprofessional and utterly ridiculous.

He also lamented that LAUTECH Teaching Hospital had also refused to release the remaining sample of tissues removed from the body of the late senator for the conduct of the autopsy that would have helped the family to seek the conduct of a second autopsy from an ethical,

professional and non-political medical facility outside Osun State.

Dr Adeleke who insisted that the family reserved the right to be given the autopsy report, claimed that they were the ones that took the body of the late senator to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital and requested that an autopsy be conducted, after paying cash for the exercise and a

representative of the family, Mrs Dupe Adeleke-Sanni, signed an

authorisation letter on behalf of the family.

He lamented that the hospital authority did not issue any receipt for the payment because it was on a Sunday.

He said despite that the Chief Medical Director, Professor Lasisi, promised to issue the receipt on Monday, the family had not been issued the receipt up till now.

He insisted that the family ordered for the conduct of the autopsy from the Osun State Governments owned LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, as an institution and not from the Chief pathologist, Dr Taiwo Solaja.