‘Overdose of banned injection killed Adeleke’- LAUTECH CMD

By Samuel Koya
Prof. Akeem Lasisi, the Chief Medical Director, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, has disclosed that the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, representing Osun West Senatorial District, died of an overdose of banned injections.
Testifying before a coroner in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, Prof. Lasisi, speaking from the witness box said the Chief Medical Director of Biket Hospital, Osogbo, Osun state, called him on phone on April 23rd, 2017, to tell of the demise of Adeleke.
Irohinoodua gathered that Prof. Lasisi alongside a pathologist, one Dr. Solaja; two resident doctors; the Officer in Charge of Homicide; Osun State Police Command; Divisional Police Officer, Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo; and the Consultant Pathologist, LAUTECH, were all present when an autopsy was carried out on Adeleke.
Prof. Lasisi said that among the injections given to Adeleke was Analgin, which he said was outlawed when the late Prof. Dora Akunyili was the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control.
“I saw the corpse. Before any process of examination of any diagnosis in medicine, there is what we call history before examination. So, we asked for the person who knew the conditions surrounding the death of the senator. So, the family pointed out to one of the aides and the aide said he (Adeleke) was active the previous day and he came at midnight and started complaining of leg pain. So, they sent for somebody who came to give him injections.
“I asked clearly the medical status of the person that administered the injections. I asked, ‘Is the person a doctor? but he said no. Is he a nurse? He said he didn’t know but the person was a face they were used to. He mentioned various injections, so I asked if I could lay my hands on the empty ampoules of the injections. The family brought it to me and I discovered that the injections were five percent dextrose. We saw empty sachets; it was like a fluid and with it we saw an intravenous fluid giving set and scalp vein needle. We saw that empty. We saw two ampoules of Analgin, four ampoules of valium (diazepam)- 10ml each making 40 milligrammes, one ampoule of pentazocine, one ampoule of gentamicin and two ampoules of hydrocortisone”.
Irohinoodua also gathered that diazepam sedates and tranquilises when given in moderate dosage, but it could knock off reflexes if given in the type of dosage Adeleke was given and could eventually lead to death.
The Osun State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, in her testimony before the coroner said that the late Adeleke and her with other dignitaries attended the funeral of the mother of the Chairman, All Progressives Congress in Osun-West Senatorial District, Mr. Yinusa Amobi, at Kuta, Osun State, on April 22nd, 2017.
She added that the late senator hesitated before he ate three spoonful of rice at the funeral ceremony. The deputy governor said the late Adeleke demonstrated an uncommon humility by coming to welcome her beside her vehicle when she arrived at the venue of the ceremony.