A student of Chrisland International High School, Opebi, Lagos, Whitney Adeniran, has died during the school’s inter-house sports in Lagos.
Gatekeepers News reports that the 12-year-old girl’s father, Dr. Michael Adeyemi Adeniran, States that the child died at Agege Stadium on Thursday, February 9.
According to him, the child had no health condition or sickness as of the time the school bus picked her up for the event.
In a Facebook post where he was seeking justice and explanation, he wrote, “To the biggest shock of my life by 1 pm in the afternoon, I got a call from my wife that she was informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic….. My wife was at the venue even before the event started. She was never informed or called until they have conveyed our child out of the venue before they informed her.
“On arrival of my wife at the health center where they took my daughter, my daughter was lying dead with her lips black and her tongue black.
“My wife called me urgently, I left my office to the place and found my 12-year-old daughter lying dead on the ground. I asked questions about 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.
“I gave Chrisland school a healthy vibrant young girl what Chrisland returned to me is a dead child. My entire family is in deep sorrow but the school Authority claimed they know nothing about my daughter’s death and all they know is that my daughter slumped and died.”
Adeniran further said the school had no ambulance or paramedics at the event, except for a nurse he described as a “quack,” who he said later confessed that the child died at the stadium
He added that, “My question is what happened to my daughter at Agege stadium? As a father, I demand answers from Chrisland International High School. I am in deep pain and sorrow right now. If you are a father you will understand my pain. My daughter is highly loved by us. We cherished her existence and we can never allow an institution to gloss over the death of our daughter.
“Since we started asking this question. The school has been asking us to back down from the autopsy and I know they know their way into the system. I am calling on the pathology department of @lasuth to please be honest with their result. Lagos State government, Nigerian Government, please intervene.”
Gatekeepers News reports that Chrisland International High School was in the news last year following an alleged rape of one of its female pupils during a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year.
Videos later emerged in social media of the students engaging in s*xual activities at their hotel in Dubai, where the school had taken them on a trip.
The school was suspended by the Lagos State Government for thorough investigation into the incident but was later reopened one week after.
