POLICE: HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER, NOT FIRST LADY'S CONVOY, CAUSED ONDO GIRL'S DEATH

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‎The Ondo State Police Command has refuted claims that a vehicle in the convoy of First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, was responsible for the death of a nine-year-old girl in Akure on Thursday.

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‎The First Lady had been in Ondo State to launch the Renewed Hope Initiative Health Programme and distribute 10,000 professional kits, including Crocs and scrubs, to midwives in the South-West zone.

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‎In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Olushola Ayanlade, clarified that the allegations were completely false and misleading.

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‎“The attention of the Ondo State Police Command has been drawn to a false and misleading report published by Sahara Reporters on April 17.

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‎“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.

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‎“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.

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‎“And not by any vehicle associated with the first lady’s convoy.”

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‎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.

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‎“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.

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‎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.

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‎“At no point was the first lady’s convoy involved in this tragedy,” the spokesperson reaffirmed