FG accepts UAE police report on the death of Aisha Falode's son

In what may likely draw more anger from the family of Oloruntoba Falode, the 19-year-old student, who was allegedly killed in Dubai mid February, the Federal Government has accepted the United Arab Emirates police report on the unfortunate incident.

Falode was allegedly killed by one Faisal Aldakmary-Nasser, a Saudi boy on February 15th this year.
In a telephone interview with The Guardian yesterday, Nigeria Ambassador to United Arab Emirates, Ibrahim Auwalu explained that he had received the report of Oloruntoba Oluwadamilola Falode death, a student of SAE Institute, Dubai, UAE.


Auwalu said that the police report and forensic investigations carried out on his corpse indicated that Toba died due to the influence of alcohol.

He said, "I will start by telling you that the police report said that there was nothing like violence or mark on his body to suggest that there was a physical fight between him and anybody. In both the police and forensic reports there was no mention of violence at all. The reports did not suggest that he had a physical fight with anybody."

"The forensic report carried out in his body indicated that there was no mark on his body to show he was murdered and the same result shows that there was high level of alcohol content in his body."

According to him, the family of the deceased has received the copies of the police report from Dubai on the death of Toba.

He said, "Of course their doctor left behind the request of the family that they would like to have the copies of the police report. And we were able to get both police and forensic reports and made them available to the family."

The envoy blamed the family for failing to take the embassy's contribution when they were pursuing the case of Toba's death in Dubai.

He noted that he had the copy of the petition to the Foreign Minister, adding that they are waiting for the ministry to react over the matter.

"Even now I am reading from the Internet the letter of the lawyer; Festus Keyamo, who, with the family was said to have visited Dubai last month. Of course they never contacted us, they never sought our assistance or contribution whereas they have my number right from when the incident happened."

"The letter informed us that they were in town. I think one thing I learnt about his letter is that they were in town. Our expectation from them, at least is that they should have called us to let us know so that we could see the possibility of introducing them to a private law firm, a reputable one, which could now advice them on all they could do and they didn't do so till they left. Because of their stand we could not sell them the idea of the local (UAE) law firm idea, who could assist us and them on the way to go."

Asked whether he has the copy of the petition, he said "I received my copy of the letter from the one they sent to the foreign ministry on May 7th 2014. They have been putting pressure on the Federal Government to re-open the matter in Dubai."

"And of course we are waiting to receive a reaction from the ministry of Foreign Affairs. Am sure that the ministry of foreign affairs will contact us for the matter so that we can summit our formal correspondence that seek the wish of the family," he said.

He pointed out that the Nigeria embassy was about 150 kilometres from where the student died.
He said, "Dubai is the capital city of United Arab Emirate and where the incident happened was 150 kilometres away from my office."

He added "We are also taking counsel from a private lawyer who will guide us on all the options. As far as the family is concerned the matter is ongoing and of course we have to go by the wish of the family. Therefore, for us too the matter is ongoing. Once the family says that they are not satisfied we continue because we represent Nigerians and their interest