Whitney Adeniran, late 12-year-old student of Chrisland School Lagos, who collapsed during the school’s inter-house sport games, died from electrocution, according to the results of an autopsy made public by her mother and confirmed by Lagos state attorney-general, Moyosore Onigbanjo.

“My child was electrocuted to death,” Blessing Adeniran, the mother of the deceased, wailed in a video on social media.

“The post mortem report revealed the cause of death to be asphyxia and electrocution,” a statement by Mr Onigbanjo said on Thursday. The post mortem report was issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on March 1.

After viewing images of autopsies online, Mrs Adeniran said she felt uneasy about subjecting her late daughter to the procedure. Instead, she pleaded with the school to investigate Whitney’s death and furnish her with the findings.

She said Chrisland school denied her request and said the student had been ill which left her no choice than to go ahead with the autopsy to find her daughter’s cause of death.

“My daughter was opened up, they took part of her kidney, they took part of her liver, they took stomach content, she was menstruating, they broke her leg, took her bone marrow, all because Chrisland kept protecting their reputation,” Mrs Adeniran explained amid tears.

She said that in order to defend their negligence, the school was “pushing the narrative” that her daughter had previously been ill, citing instances of her absence from class and prior occasions when she was ill.

“They (Chrisland) were acting all high and mighty” until the autopsy result showed the cause of death to be electrocution, Mrs Adeniran said.

Chrisland’s principal, according to Ms Adeniran, showed up in her house after the autopsy and appealed to “maintain a cordial relationship” with the grieving family, a request she immediately rejected until justice was served.

Mr Onigbanjo, the state’s commissioner for justice has assured justice will be served. He said “anybody found culpable in this incident will immediately be charged to court.”