Post-mortem confirms reason behind pupil’s demise

The mom of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old feminine pupil of Chrisland Excessive College, Ikeja, Lagos, has confirmed the reason for the daughter’s demise.

The mom, Blessing Adeniran, disclosed that investigation revealed that her daughter died from electrocution whereas participating within the faculty’s sporting occasions held on the Agege Stadium in Lagos.

In a stay video Wednesday on her official Instagram enterprise account, Mrs Adediran stated an post-mortem carried out to unravel the circumstances surrounding the demise revealed it was electrocution.

That is coming two weeks after the Lagos State Authorities ordered the indefinite closure of the varsity in response to the controversies surrounding the demise of the scholar.

Earlier than the post-mortem, the mother and father of the deceased had insisted that the scholar was hale and hearty earlier than leaving dwelling on the stated day, however the faculty administration denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the scholar “slumped” on the stadium.

Alleged cover-up try?

Crying profusely, Mrs Adediran stated she has been subjected to trauma the previous three weeks since her daughter died, including that the varsity additionally contributed to the trauma for allegedly “pushing false narratives to guard their repute.”

She stated: “They made me suppose I used to be loopy, they began pushing the narrative that she was sick. I advised them, I dont need bother, I would like solutions. They got here to my home. I knelt down, begged and pleaded that I dont need my daughter butchered for post-mortem sake

“I advised them my daughter is already useless, and I don’t wish to put her by way of that and my husband advised them we now have been listening to rumours of electrocution and requested them to assist us examine these rumours, however they refused.

“They despatched a letter to me and my husband that they only wish to guarantee us that they did all the things humanly attainable to save lots of my daughter’s life.”

Mrs Adediran added that the household would sue the varsity in a regulation courtroom.

Background

Following the unlucky demise of the scholar, the deceased’s mother and father initially accused the varsity administration of negligence.

They took to social media to hunt public intervention to unravel the circumstances which will have led to their daughter’s sudden demise whereas participating within the sporting occasions.

The mother and father insisted that the dearth of an ambulance or first aiders on the venue of the sporting occasions contributed to the scholar’s demise.

In response, the Chairman of the varsity’s Advisory Board, Ike Ofuokwu, famous in a press release that the 12-year-old deceased “slumped in public view and never beneath any hidden circumstances.”

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“Our fast response was to reap the benefits of proximity by figuring out the closest medical facility to take her to, the place the physician on responsibility administered oxygen and each assist attainable on her,” stated Mr Ofuokwu.

In line with the assertion, the scholar opted to not take part within the inter-house sports activities match previous “for causes we weren’t very certain about.”