Contrary to the claims in some quarters, the aunt to the girl at the centre of attempted poison by her 12-year-old male classmate has said that the suspect has not been expelled from the Lekki British International School, Lekki, Lagos.
The family of the victim has been seeking justice for the girl who is still made to sit in the same class with the boy who had attempted to kill her.
According to a Facebook post by one Abimbola Ololade Oligbinde, who describes herself as the victim’s aunt, the suspect is still attending school after a mere one-week suspension, effectively putting to question the school’s assertion that the suspect has been expelled.
Oligbinde wrote: “Hmmm… Good morning parents… I will come back on this matter of the 12-year-old who attempted to kill his classmate with a broader perspective, deeper than this parent just analysed.
“The child in question is my niece… been following the trend of events since the incident, precisely on Wednesday 14th June, 2017 at about 1.30pm.
“It will amaze you that the school in question still has the boy in school… no mental case assessment, he was allowed to write the very same exams he had tactfully planned on executing his classmate for so that she doesn’t take the first position again.”
Oligbinde added that the mother of the victimised child was told that the boy was due for resumption after a week’s suspension.
She stated, “After this incidence, upon inquiry, the girl’s mother was told that he (the suspect) was to resume a mere one week suspension next week after exams are over on Friday, which is tomorrow.
“She insisted that the punishment would only have reinforced the boy…as they should have started from expulsion and maybe work it down to a term’s suspension after proper evaluation of d boy’s mental state (if the school still thought it was necessary to retain such an evil mind in the school, that is).
“However, to her greatest shock, the owner of the school cornered her daughter to coerce her to write a false statement that she provoked the boy to such an evil act!!!! How evil can one get?”
She also stated that the parent of the victim was accused of wanting to destroy the boy’s future by demanding for his expulsion from the school.
She wrote, “But alas the parent of the victim is being accused by the school management of wanting to destroy the life of the boy by asking that he be expelled and made to write an apology.
“An apology came after one week of the incidence after it was vehemently demanded for.
“I am appalled at the rot and decay of any form of value system that has exhumed from one of Nigeria’s supposed best schools, Lekki British International School.”
