Lagos State government and the National Medical Services Laboratories, in Pennsylvania, United States of America are at variance over a purported poison test said to have been carried out at the laboratory.
It all started at the Coroner’s Court sitting in Ikorodu area when pathologist and Counsel to the government said that an autopsy conducted in United States could not ascertain Mohbad’s cause of death on account of decomposed corpse.
To back up the claim, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso latter said in an interview, “The matter is being handled by the state DNA and Forensic Centre, but they are doing skeletal services, and they have affiliate centres which are three.
“So, if there is an emergency like this one that we have, they will not say they cannot handle it. So, there are three of them in the US and the one handling this particular one is the NMS in Pennsylvania, USA.”
The latest, is that NMS Labs has denied conducting the said autopsy.
This was according to Punchng.
The latter cited the Client Services Associate, Forensics Division, NMS Labs, Esther Dede: “Unfortunately, we do not have a case for that patient.”
The publication added that Omotoso reacted to NMS’ denial thus, “This was what I was told by the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre officials who took the sample there. We are dealing with the officials of the centre, they have three other labs that they have affiliations with. If they have an emergency, they can go to any of the three labs. I asked which particular one did they go to and they answered it was that one. That means I will have to go and check again because that was what I was told.”
