By ABDUWAHAB ABDULAH

LAGOS—Lagos State Attorney-General, Mr. Ade Ipaye, has vowed to institute criminal action against anyone found to have committed any criminal offence regarding Dana air crash that claimed the lives of 153 people on June 3, in Lagos.

Ipaye, who disclosed this in a response to a letter from a Lagos lawyer, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, asking the former to “lead inquest on deaths caused by crash of Dana airline,” said he would not shy away from his responsibility to institute criminal action against anybody or institutions indicted after the outcome of “investigations by the police into the remote cause of the accident.”

The law firm of Agbakoba & Co. had asked the Attorney-General to lead the inquest at the on-going coroner instituted by his chambers in conjunction with others to unravel the causes of the Dana ill-fated air accident.

The Attorney-General said his office had referred the matter to the office of the state Commissioner of Police for further investigation, couple with the outcome of the forensic from  pathologists at the State University Teaching Hospital trying to determine the manner in which each of the victims died following the accident.