Chidalu Onyekwuluje, a student of St Michael’s Boys Secondary School, Ozubulu, Anambra State has died of alleged negligence on the part of school authorities.
This is coming barely 2 months after the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni.
The father of the latest casualty, Prince Cornelius Onyekwuluje accused the school of negligence ad high-handedness.
He complained that his ailing son died after the school management failed to call him or his wife to come take him home.
Onyekwuluje said that even when his son’s health deteriorated, the school authorities insisted that he must remain and finish his exams before he would be released.
The father of the 11-year-old added that his cousin borrowed a phone to alert the family that the young boy was seriously ill but the school had refused to send him home.
The bereaved father, in tears added that his son died on the 17th of December, 2021, 9 days after he was picked from the school.
According to him, “My son, Bright Chidalu Onyekwuluje died out of negligence on the part of the school. He was sick, and they refused to tell us. It was my son’s cousin that borrowed a phone to call his mother to inform us to come and pick Bright that he was dying.
“He told us he has been the one backing him from the school hostel to the classroom everyday to sit for exams.
“Even after the call, I reached the guardian of my son, but he lied to me that the boy was okay and that it was nothing serious. I insisted on coming from Port Harcourt, Rivers State where I live to pick him, and they insisted it was nothing serious.
“When I insisted I must see him, I was surprised the boy looked so bad that he was already dying. I asked the guardian if this was the boy he said was alright, but he did not answer. Now I have lost my only son.”
Also speaking with reporters, a spokesperson for the Onyekwuluje family, Ben Onyekwuluje said that the family will stop at nothing to seek justice.
He added that a petition has been sent to the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba to investigate the matter.
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