An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has discharged and acquitted a nurse, Alfred Aderibigbe who treated Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke before his death on April 23, 2017.
Nurse Alfred Aderibigbe was arraigned in the High Court on 8th June 2018 and he pleaded not guilty to one count murder charge preferred against him according to section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the Criminal Code Law Cap.36 Law of Osun State 2003.
The Prosecuting team from the Ministry of Justice led by Acting Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, Mr Dapo Adeniji called nine (9) witnesses and tendered several exhibits during the trial.
Among the witnesses were the former Chief Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, the Consultant Pathologist, who carried out the autopsy on Adeleke’s corpse, Dr Taiwo Sholaja, police forensic expert and others.
In his own evidence during trial, Aderibigbe said the drugs he gave the late Senator were those given to him by the deceased and not in overdose.
Counsel to the nurse, Mr Soji Oyetayo, informed the court that none of the witnesses visited the late Senator house to confirm if the used drugs brought to the Court were truly administered to the deceased.
In his judgment, Justice Ayo Oyebiyi said that Prosecution Counsel failed to proof his case beyond a reasonable doubt and consequently discharged and acquitted the defendant.
Recall that former governor, Rauf Aregbesola signed an Executive Order setting up a coroner inquest to look into the cause of the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke.
The findings of the Corona Inquest led by Chief Magistrate, Dr Segun Ayilara revealed that Senator Isiaka Adeleke died of drug overdose coupled with an aspiration of gastric content.
Dr Ayilara’s inquest affirmed that the deceased had an administration of an overdose of sedative and analgesia by unqualified personnel, Alfred Aderibigbe, through intravenous means, the action hastened by the presence of alcohol in the body system.
The deceased had patronised the nurse for over 20 years and had taken treatment from him without a doctor’s prescriptions.
Ayilara indicted the nurse, Mr Alfred Aderibigbe, who treated Adeleke shortly before he died, as unqualified personnel and recommended that the Department of Public Prosecutions should duplicate the case file and press approbation charges against the nurse.
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