Testifying before a coroner, Mr Olusegun Ayilara, in Osogbo, on Monday, The Chief Medical Director, Lautech, Prof Akeem Lasisi, who spoke from the witness box, said the Chief Medical Director of Biket Hospital, Osogbo, Dr Adebisi Adenle, called him on the telephone on April 23 to tell him that Adeleke had died.
He said, “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 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 at that point I asked him if could lay his hands on the empty ampoules of the injections. The family members went home to get them. The injections were five per cent 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”
“His aide said after he had been given, he (Adeleke) called him that he doesn’t want to entertain any visitor and he went to sleep. The aide said he later went back to check him and saw that the senator’s eyes were wide open but he wasn’t breathing.”
The CMD added that diazepam ‘sedates and tranquilises when given in moderate dosage’ but said it could knock off reflexes if given in the type of dosage Adeleke was given and could eventually lead to death.
“Analgin has been outlawed since the days of Dora Akunyili in NAFDAC”.
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