Mother protests death of four-year-old child in BrickHall School, Abuja

A mother on Monday stormed BrickHall School in Abuja to protest what she believed was a cover-up in the death of her four-year-old kid, Miguel Ovoke on April 24.

 

The mother alleged that the school authorities were covering up on the incident, which led to the death of their late pupil.

 

A video making the rounds on social media, shows the mother, dressed in all-black, and others with cardboards reading, “We Need Justice For Miguel.”

 

“BrickHall School Killed Miguel.”

 

“18 students for one class where I dey pay N350,000,”  she said in one of the videos.

 

In another video showing staff members of the school, she went from one staff member to another, identifying them as the people responsible for covering up her son’s death.

 

“See the head teacher,” she said. Moving from the head headteacher to another staffer, she said, “See who lie for doctor say my pikin dey for hospital, na this man lie for doctor ooo. Doctor say my pikin no die for hospital. Na who carry my pikin dead body go hospital.”

 

A police officer who was seen in one of the videos asked her, “If your matter is in CID, why are you here?”

 

 

According to the death certificate dated April 24, 2024, issued by Excel Specialist Hospital, Ovoke was brought to the hospital by his teachers around 11 am in an unconscious state.

 

The medical report, signed by Dr. Akinwande Ajayi, on behalf of the medical director, indicated that he was brought in, “on account of aspiration on meat while feeding at school.”

 

The hospital said upon examination, the medical team found that the boy’s pupils were fixed and dilated, with a nonreactive response to light.

 

His peripheral pulses were said to be “impalpable, blood pressure was unrecordable, and there was no cardiopulmonary activity or respiratory excursions, silent chest.”

 

The report indicated that all efforts of the medical team to resuscitate him failed.

 

The report concluded that he was “Brought in Dead.”