Parents Suspect Foul Play in 4-Year-Old’s Death at Abuja School
A four-year-old pupil of BrickHall Schools in Abuja died on Wednesday during the school’s feeding hour. According to The PUNCH, the parents of the pupil suspect foul play and have contacted Deji Adeyanju, a lawyer, to handle the case.
A death certificate issued by Excel Specialist Hospital, Abuja, on Wednesday, revealed that the pupil’s teachers brought him to the hospital unconscious.
“The medical report, signed by Dr. Akinwande Ajayi on behalf of the medical director, indicated that he was brought in ‘on account of aspiration on meat while feeding at school,” The PUNCH stated.
“The hospital said that upon examination, the medical team found that the boy’s pupils were fixed and dilated, with a nonreactive response to light. His peripheral pulses were said to be ‘impalpable, blood pressure was unrecordable, and there was no cardiopulmonary activity or respiratory excursions, silent chest’.
“The report indicated that all efforts of the medical team to resuscitate him failed. The report concluded that he was ‘Brought in Dead.’”
NOT THE FIRST SUSPICIOUS SCHOOL DEATH IN NIGERIA
The pupil’s death marks another school-related death in the country.
Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student at Chrisland International High School, Lagos, died in February 2023.
Adeniran died after she slumped during Chrisland’s inter-house sports ceremony. According to an the press report, the only medical staff at the athletic event was the school nurse; there was no safety corps and no properly prepared ambulance.
Following the incident, the state government said the school would be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter, recklessness and negligence.
The mysterious death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old JSS 2 student at Dowen College, Lekki, was another incident that rocked the country.
In December 2021, the family of Sylvester claimed that five teenagers at the school bullied him to death. Following an inquest, however, a Lagos coroner blamed the death on natural causes, the parents and their family doctor.
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