“Sylvester Oromoni’s autopsy results did not bring out the issue of murder on anybody” – Police reveals, says suspects aren’t responsible for his death

The Nigerian Police Force has announced that suspects earlier detained for the death of Sylvester Oromoni are not actually responsible for the death based on autopsy reports.

Recall that Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, a student of the school was allegedly beaten to death by schoolmates for refusing to join a cult group.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has affirmed that the two autopsy tests conducted on the remains of the 11-year-old Dowen college, Sylvester Oromoni shows that he wasn’t murdered.

According to him, Post Mortem was carried out in Delta and Lagos respectively and they both dismissed the erroneous claim that Sylvester was murdered.

In the Commissioner’s word:

”We are not at the peak yet.  But we have done  our investigation and have sent the report to the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP for legal advise on those arrested and DPP has replied. We have gone through the medical aspect  which is the post mortem.

Post mortem was carried out in Delta and Lagos states.  The first one done in Delta State was only witnessed by parents of the deceased.

But after I held a meeting with the parties concerned, at the instance and directive of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu  and my Inspector- General of Police, IGP Alkali Usman Baba, the second post mortem was carried out in Lagos.

The corpse was brought from Delta State to Lagos, where the Post mortem was carried out with all the parties involved , that is : parents of the deceased, parents of the students accused, the school authority  and government. These were the four parties that witnessed the post mortem. And the result is out.

The report of the Post Mortem did not bring out the issue of murder on anybody.

Besides the result of the autopsy, the court order that we got has elapsed  and we have released the house master and others on bail,  because there was nothing that indicted them of murder.

It is only a murder case that is not bailable. Every other offences are bailable. They have been in custody for more than twenty days and that is infringing on their fundamental human rights. Since medical and legal reports have not indicted them so far, I think there is need to allow them have their freedom because bail is not the end of the case.

Another forensic test known as toxicology , will be carried out on the corpse.

By the way, the  Toxicology test is to determine the concoction that was allegedly forced into the deceased mouth which peeled his lips. 

Toxicology test was being done in Nigeria before, precisely at the Lagos State medical facility in Lagos Island. But after the EndASRS crisis, it is conducted outside the country.

Until that one is effectively done, we won’t know the final report. But with the interim report, nothing showed  murder”