The Ondo State Police Command has denied reports that a nine-year-old child died in Akure on Thursday as a result of a car in the First Lady’s convoy, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
Previously, the first lady was in Ondo State to introduce the Renewed Hope Initiative Health Program and to provide 10,000 professional kits to midwives in the South-West region, which included scrubs and Crocs.
DSP Olushola Ayanlade, the Command’s spokesman, confirmed in a statement that the allegation was completely false and deceptive.
“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.
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The witness accounts were corroborated by several individuals at the scene, as well as by the victim’s parents.
“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.
