The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Osun state branch has said that non of its members was arrested in connection with the death of the first Executive Governor of the state, Senator Isiaka Adeleke.
It would be recalled that some reports had it that the late senator died as a result of the painkiller overdose prescribed to him by a doctor and that the doctor was subsequently arrested.
But Osun NMA in a statement jointly signed by its chairman, Dr T O Olajumoke and secretary, Dr Olalekan Ajayi and made available to PMParrotng in Osogbo on Wednesday debunked the claim that its member was arrested stressing that no doctor was involved, implicated or arrested in connection with the incident.
The statement reads: “The NMA, Osun branch, wishes to disclaim the news of the arrest of a doctor in connection with the unfortunate circumstance surrounding the death of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke.
“We wish to state that no doctor was involved, implicated nor arrested as being purported in some media.”
NMA then urged media practitioners to desist from such fallacious declaration which could have untold consequences in the society.
NMA also sympathised with the family of the late senator and urged the citizens of the state to demand for affordable and qualitative health care from the state government in order to reduce the loss of lives in the future.
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