There’s a heavy presence of security operatives at Dowen
College in Lekki, amidst insinuations that the Lagos State government may soon
reopen the school.
Armed policemen with Armoured Personnel Carriers were seen
watching over the school and also the hostels which are opposite the school’s
main building.
The presence of security operatives may not be unconnected
to threats by some Niger Delta youths to stage a protest against the reopening
of the school.
The protesters, suspected to be Ijaw indigenes, in branded
solidarity shirts, gathered at the gate of the school on January 6 to demand
its continued closure
The school had been shut down in December following the
death of one of its students, 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni.
The deceased was alleged to have been beaten and fed a
chemical substance by some senior students of the school. This was dismissed by
Dowen College, stating that Oromoni sustained injuries while playing football
in school.
Five students and five staff of the school linked to
Oromoni’s death were in January acquitted by the Lagos State Director of Public
Prosecution.
The DPP Director, Adetutu Oshinusi, had revealed that the
report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Central
Hospital, Warri, agreed that the causes of Oromoni’s death were septicaemia,
lobar pneumonia with acute pyelonephritis, pyomyositis of the right ankle and
acute bacteria pneumonia due to severe sepsis.
The DPP’s legal advice, therefore, concluded that based on
these findings, there is “no prima facie case of murder, involuntary
manslaughter and or malicious administering of poison with intent to harm
against the five students”.
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