An Abuja court has struck out an application by Premiere
Academy Lugbe seeking to stop a probe of the circumstances that led to the
alleged r@p3 and death of Keren Akphagher, one of its students.
Keren died in June 2021 after developing sepsis from an
infection caused by a c0nd0.,m allegedly left inside her by someone who had r@p3d
her.
It was gathered that it had compromised Keren’s immune
system, spiked her blood sugar — as an already diabetic patient –and resulted
in hyperglycemia.
A report issued to the family by Queen’s Hospital Abuja stated that decomposed condom particles and dead sperm were found in the girl’s private part.
The FCT police had commenced an investigation into the case
but the family sought for it to be transferred to the force criminal
investigation department (FCID), alleging the former was compromised in its
handling of the matter.
An autopsy was later conducted in July 2021 while the
ministry of education and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) also
waded in to probe the case.
The House of Representatives had also directed that a DNA
test be conducted on the male staff at Keren’s school so as to fish out the
culprit.
The lower legislative chamber thereafter set up a panel for
an investigative public hearing on the case in December.
After Keren’s death, Vivien Akphagher, her mother, had
lodged a complaint at the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection
Commission (FCCPC).
She had accused the school of breaching their contract of
duty of care and protection of her daughter.
This prompted the commission to summon the school.
Premiere Academy had asked the court to grant an order of
interlocutory injunction.
This was to restrain the FCCPC from inviting the school or
demanding any of the school’s information, pending the hearing and
determination of the substantive suit.
But on Friday, the Abuja federal high court struck the
request to halt FCCPC’s investigation into the case.
Ruling on the school’s interlocutory application, Evelyn
Maha, the judge who presided over the matter, held that granting the
application means delving into the legality and illegality of the commission’s
action.
Maha refused the application and ordered an accelerated
hearing of the substantive suit.
The judge thereafter adjourned to June 22, at which time it
would have been one year since the student’s death.
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