HURIWA Puts Lagos Govt To Task On School Deaths

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has asked the Lagos State Governor Mr Babajide SanwaOlu to take immediate but comprehensive measures to stop Lagos State private Schools from becoming the killing fields of Students and places of sexual molestation of Children by staff of the school.

The group made the demand as it charged the authorities in the state to investigate the allegations of negligence leading to the death of a 12-year old female student of Chrisland International School Lagos.

The Rights group condemned the lacklustre and politically tainted approaches used so far by  the current Lagos State administration to handle such cases including that of the 12-year old male student of Dowen college Lagos Silvester Junior tortured to death in December 2021 by his colleagues for refusing to join a student cult.

HURIWA accused the Lagos State Governor of pandering to the whims and caprices of the rich elites who own the private schools in  Lagos who are believed  to be using their connection to the seat of power in Lagos to perpetually delay and deny social justice to the victims of these crimes of rape and torture in the schools.

HURIWA in a statement to the media by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko recalled that Mr. Michael Adeniran, the father of a 12-year-old Chrisland International School student, Opebi branch, had taken to social media to cry out over the death of his daughter, Whitney Adeniran, who allegedly died during the school’s inter-house sports activities. According to posts making the rounds on social media on Saturday night, Adeniran said his daughter died on Thursday at the Agege Stadium, where the school used for its sporting activities.

HURIWA recalled that the father of the deceased Student has subsequently called on the Lagos State Government and the police to look into the matter and get justice for his slain child.

HURIWA quoted Adeniran as stating thus: “To the biggest shock of my life by 1 pm in the afternoon, I got a call from my wife that she was informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic. My wife was at the venue even before the event started. She was never informed or called until they have conveyed our child out of the venue before they informed her. On arrival of my wife at the health center where they took my daughter. my daughter was lying dead with her lips black and her tongue black.

HURIWA lamented also that  Mr. Fredrick Olurunfemi, father of a 7-year-old pupil of Luyol Schools, who pointed an accusing finger at her school bus driver for molestation has been confirmed dead.

The pupil who will turn eight in May, had told her mother that the driver, having conveyed other students to their destinations on the 1st of February, 2023, drove her to his house to had canal knowledge of her. Hearing this, Olurunfemi proceeded to the school with his daughter to speak to the driver, leading to an altercation between them. Consequently, the school bus driver pushed Mr Femi, who fell down and was rushed to a nearby hospital, Osuntuyi Medical Centre where he was confirmed dead.

The Rights group said the wife to the deceased Mrs. Mabel Olurunfemi, said: “Last Wednesday, my daughter came back from school and told me that after her school bus  driver had dropped everyone at their houses, he took her to his house, told her to lift her school uniform and sit on his lap to kiss him, and was calling her his wife.”

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