Protesters in branded solidarity shirts, believed to be Ijaw indigenes, have assembled at Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos, to demand that the institution remain closed.
Dowen College is where five pupils were accused of assaulting a 12-year-old colleague, Sylvester Oromoni, for refusing to join a cult group.
In addition to the beating, Oromoni, who died later, was reported to have been given a chemical substance to consume.
The five students and five staff members of the school involved in his death were acquitted on Wednesday by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution.
Adetutu Oshinusi, the Director of the DPP, disclosed that the report produced by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Central Hospital, Warri, agreed that the causes of Oromoni’s death were septicemia, lobar pneumonia with acute pyelonephritis, right ankle pyomyositis, and acute bacteria pneumonia related to severe sepsis
Based on these results, the DPP’s legal opinion decided that there is no prima facie evidence of murder, involuntary manslaughter, or malicious administration of poison with intent to damage the five pupils.
Meanwhile, in a social media video, the deceased’s mother begged God to revenge her son.
She was lamenting the fact that she couldn’t celebrate Yuletide like everyone else because she didn’t have her son with her.
She stated that the entire world will know that there is a God who fights for the underprivileged.
Arise, Jehovah God. Rise, King of Glory, and cut the lives short, includes those who back them up
Let them feel the agony I’m going through.” God let your rod fall on them if they breathe the oxygen you created.
