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Police Debunk Reports Linking First Lady’s Convoy To Death In Ondo

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April 18, 2025
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The Police Force Ondo State Command has dismissed as false a report claiming that a vehicle in the convoy of the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, was responsible for the death of a nine-year-old girl in Akure on Thursday.

The News Agency of Nigeria 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.

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In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, clarified that the claim, published by an online reporters, 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.

“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 command’s pokesperson, 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.

The witness accounts were corroborated by several individuals at the scene, as well as by the victim’s parents.

“Furthermore, Sahara Reporters inaccurately claimed the deceased girl was nine years old.

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.

 

 

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