Police in Lagos have dismissed reports that the woman, who was filmed saying she had sex with a dog, had died of infection.
A national daily reported on May 10 that the woman, whose identity is still unclear, had passed on from infection.
However, spokesman of the Command Benjamin Hundeyin said in a statement on Friday that the report was fabricated.
The statement said, “The attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a publication with the above caption dated May 10, 2022 and credited to one Kayode Ajiboye of Independent Newspapers.
“As this borders on an ongoing police investigation, the Lagos State Police Command reached out to the author of this article for information that would help the police conclude/close the investigation. Shockingly, however, the author claimed he could not verify the story but simply lifted it from an online blog.
“Not only did this author not credit the original source (plagiarism) of the news in consonance with simple ethics of journalism, he also made no attempt to fact-check the news, thereby making himself susceptible to the spreading of fake news, especially knowing how critical and sensitive the facts in issue were.”
Hundeyin added that information with the police suggests that the author is in “cahoot with the wanted suspect to help her evade justice, which in itself is a criminal offence.”
