Ondo State Police Command has described as false a report making the rounds that a vehicle in the convoy of the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, was responsible for the death of a nine-year-old girl in Akure on Thursday.
The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Olushola Ayanlade, made this clarification in a statement, saying the claim was entirely baseless and misleading.
“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.
The statement added that eyewitness accounts and preliminary investigations conducted by the command confirmed that the incident was caused by a hit-and-run driver operating an unregistered white Lexus vehicle.
The statement said a witness, Ayanlade, 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.
The State Police Commissioner, 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.
DAILY POST reports that the first lady was in Ondo State to launch the Renewed Hope Initiative Health Programme and to distribute 10,000 professional kits comprising Crocs and scrubs, to midwives in the South-West zone.
