Senator isiaka adelekes death row

According to the CMD, Serubawon, as Adeleke was fondly, called died of an overdose of banned injections. The CMD told the court that one of the aides of the late senator told him that the deceased complained of leg pain and somebody treated him. Lasisi said the aide told him that the person, who treated Adeleke was not a doctor but could not say if he was a nurse.

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The CMD stated that the aide mentioned the names of the various injections administered on him before his death and the aide in company with other aides was asked to go and bring them. The CMD stated that he did not ask for the name of the person who treated Adeleke but he wanted to know what was administered and the competence of the person that administered the drugs.

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. The family members went home to get them. The injections were five per cent dextrose.

A member of the Nigerian Senate, representing Osun West Senatorial district, Isiaka Adeleke, has died at

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. He explained that pentazocine was capable of killing bad pain but it was usually advised not to be given to patients intravenously but through intra-muscular injection.