FIJ
In the last 24 hours, news about the death of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student at Chrisland International High School, Opebi, Lagos, rocked social media platforms.
On Saturday, Michael Adeniran, the father of the deceased, said his daughter died at the Agege Stadium, which the school used for its inter-house sports activities held on the same day.
According to him, Whitney left the house hale and hearty at the time the school bus driver came to pick her up, but the next time he saw her, she was dead.
“To the biggest shock of my life, by 1 p.m. on Thursday, I got a call from my wife that she had been informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic,” Adeniran said.
“I left my office and went to the place where I found my 12-year-old daughter lying dead on the ground. I asked what happened to my daughter, and the school authority could not get me any information as to what happened to my child in their care.”
While Whitney’s death came as a shock to many Nigerians, this is not Chrisland’s first time in the news for the wrong reason.
DEFILEMENT
In October 2019, Adegboyega Adenekan, a supervisor at Chrisland School in Lekki, Lagos, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for defiling a two-year-old pupil at the school.
The mother of the defiled pupil raised the alarm in 2016 that Adenekan raped her child. Although the school denied the claim and stood with the teacher, proclaiming his innocence, the Lagos State Government took over the case.
On October 24, 2019, the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court found the teacher guilty of a one-count charge of rape of a minor.
Justice Sybil Nwaka, sitting at the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sentenced and convicted the then-47-year-old Adenekan to jail.
While giving the ruling, Nwaka held that the evidence before the court showed that the supervisor was guilty as charged.
